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Books by Bruce Weigl
  | | On the Shores of Welcome Home (American Poets Continuum) by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2019 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-942683-89-6, ISBN: 1-942683-89-8 "Winner of the Isabella Gardner Award In this Isabella Gardner Award-winning collection of poems, Bruce Weigl meditates on the ghosts and the grace one encounters in life’s second act. A celebrated poet and veteran of the Vietnam War, Weigl offers a nuanced sense of aging as a departure and death as a returning home. With a sage’s eye for mindfulness and a soldier’s longing for the country where he served, Weigl’s poems reveal the long s ..." |
 | | The Abundance of Nothing Poems (Triquarterly) by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2012 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5223-6, ISBN: 0-8101-5223-1 " Finalist for 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Throughout his award-winning career, Bruce Weigl has proven himself to be a poet of extraordinary emotional acuity and consummate craftsmanship. In The Abundance of Nothing, these qualities are on full display, animating and informing poems that combine rich, metaphoric imagery with direct, powerful language. Deftly weaving history and everyday experience, Weigl transports reade ..." |
 | | The Unraveling Strangeness(1st Edition) Poems by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3938-2, ISBN: 0-8021-3938-8 "Bruce Weigl's poetry has been acclaimed by C. K. Williams as "powerful and frightening, poems [that] force us to repudiate our comfortable uncertainties, our drowsy vagueness," and Carolyn Forche has said that Bruce Weigl "is one of the most important poets of our time." With Song of Napalm and followed by Archeology of the Circle, Weigl has established himself as a poet of incomparable power and lyric fury. For Weigl, home is where the ..." |
 | | The Circle of Hanh(Reprint) A Memoir by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3805-7, ISBN: 0-8021-3805-5 "With all the breathtaking imagery and lyric fury that characterizes his acclaimed poetry, Bruce Weigl recounts his struggles in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, which tore his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice. Upon his release from duty he turned to alcohol, drugs, and women, living for years in a confused purgatory until he discovered salvation in poetry and in the love of his wife and their son. Yet it was only thro ..." |
 | | Archeology of the Circle(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Grove Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3607-7, ISBN: 0-8021-3607-9 "With Song of Napalm, Bruce Weigl established himself as a poet of incomparable power and lyric fury whose work stands as an elegy to the countless lives dramatically altered by war. Archeology of the Circle brings together the major work of one of America's greatest poets. Collected here for the first time, from eight volumes of poetry and spanning two decades, the poems in Archeology of the Circle also include Bruce Weigl's most recent ..." |
 | | Song of Napalm(Reprint) Poems by Bruce Weigl, Robert Stone Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1994 by Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-471-4, ISBN: 0-87113-471-3 ""Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heartwrenching, and often very funny poems. It's a narrative, the story of an American innocent's descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have written the best novel so far about the Vietnam War, and along the way a dozen truly memorable poems." -- Russell Banks" |
 | | What Saves Us(1st Edition) by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 75 Pages, Published 1992 by Triquarterly Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5013-3, ISBN: 0-8101-5013-1 "Winner, 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry In these wrenching, elegant poems, Bruce Weigl writes out of uncompromising memory and vision. His subject is both the transport and anguish of being open to the lived and living moment. From bars and bedrooms, in Ohio and Nicaragua and Vietnam, his voice rises through the noise of history and habit to reach us with impeccable grace and remarkable invention." |
 | | Declension in the Village of Chung Luong by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 2006 by Ausable Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931337-31-1, ISBN: 1-931337-31-4 "After years of profound spiritual work, our most powerful poet of the Viet Nam War now turns to our potential for redemption. The book s locus is Chung Luong, birthplace of Weigl s Vietnamese daughter, Hanh, and one of the poorest and most beautiful places on earth. That vivid contrast, between beauty and utter poverty, is what drives this book, allowing the poet to view the collapse of empire one of the book s central themes from a new ..." |
 | | Sweet Lorain(1st Edition) by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 1996 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5054-6, ISBN: 0-8101-5054-9 "Winner of the 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry As an elegist of the lives of those who have been changed by hardship and suffering, and especially by war, Bruce Weigl has become one of the most admired American poets of his generation. In this collection, he returns not only to Vietnam but to the Lorain, Ohio, of his youth. In his continued quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment, Weigl writes about the connections betw ..." |
 | | After the Others(1st Edition) Poems by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1999 by Triquarterly Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5092-8, ISBN: 0-8101-5092-1 "Winner of the 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry In his twelfth volume of poetry, Bruce Weigl continues his quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment. Quiet and moving, these poems combine an intimate voice with a searingly direct look at suffering and senseless violence, at human desire and love, and at man's relationship with nature." |
 | | Charles Simic Essays on the Poetry (Under Discussion) by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03290-7, ISBN: 0-472-03290-9 "Charles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart from his contemporaries by a particularly inclusive and worldly vision, his is a poetic voice singular in our time for its quality of empathy, for its imagination-enriched logic, and for its deep and abiding clarity. In Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry the perspectives of a range of critic ..." |
 | | AmongElms,inAmbush Format Paperback by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2021 by Boa Editions, Limited, Rochester ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-41-8, ISBN: 1-950774-41-4 "This powerful new work by Bruce Weigl follows the celebrated poet and Vietnam War veteran as he explores combat, survival, and PTSD in brief prose vignettes." |
 | | The Circle of Hanh(1st Edition) A Memoir by Bruce Weigl Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1661-1, ISBN: 0-8021-1661-2 "With all the breathtaking imagery and lyric fury that characterizes his acclaimed poetry, Bruce Weigl recounts his struggles in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, which tore his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice. Upon his release from duty he turned to alcohol, drugs, and women, living for years in a confused purgatory until he discovered salvation in poetry and in the love of his wife and their son. Yet it was only thro ..." |
 | | Sweet Lorain(1st Edition) by Bruce Weigl Hardcover, 68 Pages, Published 1996 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5053-9, ISBN: 0-8101-5053-0 "Many of these poems also appeared in Van Nghe (Hanoi), translated into Vietnamese by Nguyen Quang Thieu, editor of that journal's international literary pages. Early drafts of some of these poems were written during two recent visits to ..." |
 | | The Imagination as Glory The Poetry of James Dickey by Bruce Weigl, T. R. Hummer, James. Dickey Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01101-6, ISBN: 0-252-01101-5 "Dickey, James. The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James Dickey. Edited and with an Introduction by Bruce Weigl and T.R. Hummer. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1984. 23.5cm x 15.7cm. 198 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following poems: Poems of Darkness and a Specialized Light / Oriented by Instinct by Stars / The Way of Exchange ..." |
 | | American Poets Continuum Ser. On the Shores of Welcome Home by Bruce Weigl 100 Pages, Published 2019 by Boa Editions Ltd. 2019-10-08, Rochester ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-09-8, ISBN: 1-950774-09-0 "In this Isabella Gardner Award-winning collection of poems, Bruce Weigl meditates on the ghosts and the grace one encounters in life's second act." |
 | | Song of Napalm Poems by Bruce Weigl, Ann Godoff Hardcover, Published 1988 by Brand: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-241-3, ISBN: 0-87113-241-9 |
 | | After the Others Poems (Hardcover) by Bruce Weigl Hardcover, 73 Pages, Published 2006 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5091-1, ISBN: 0-8101-5091-3 "In After the Others, his twelfth volume of poetry, Bruce Weigl continues his quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment. Quiet and moving, these poems combine an intimate voice with a searingly direct look at suffering and senseless violence, at human desire and love, and at man's relationship with nature. Revisiting themes explored in previous volumes, while expanding into previously uncharted territory, After the Others is eviden ..." |
 | | What Saves Us Poems by Bruce Weigl Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1992 by Triquarterly Books ISBN-13: 978-0-916384-09-8, ISBN: 0-916384-09-8 |
 | | The Monkey Wars Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series) by Bruce Weigl Hardcover, 47 Pages, Published 1985 by Univ Of Georgia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-0740-4, ISBN: 0-8203-0740-8 "Brief poems deal with the Vietnamese War, a couple's quarrel, a battered wife, rites of passage, and physical and psychological violence." |
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