The Moon Reflected Fire by Doug Anderson

Maxine Kumin and
Joyce Peseroff recommend
The Moon Reflected Fire, poems by Doug Anderson (Alice James). Kumin: “These are war poems-war poems and beyond. Vivid, compelling, controlled, and often wildly lyrical.” Peseroff: “Not just about Vietnam but resonant with the history of warriors from the backyard to
The Iliad to the Bible, Doug Anderson’s first book burns with compassion, rage, tenderness, and pain. The intimate voice of these poems insinuates their author’s images of Americans and Vietnamese into our own memory, as
The Moon Reflected Fire unrolls ‘the carpet we have woven with the hair of the dead.’ “