“This generous, extraordinary collection by a Vietnam combat vet and accomplished poet comes to us illuminated by his lifetime of reflection, healing, and reconciliation. Crafted with precision and sensitivity, these poems of rivers and the flow of memory, of Missouri farms and kinfolk, of Vietnam and firefights and woundedness and trauma, of homecoming within New England meadows and Zen stillness—poems of the living and the dead and the redemptive powers of love—testify to the possibilities of recovery from lacerating horrors of war by struggling into hard-won inner peace. William Allen Miller is a poet of soulfulness, tenderness, unflinching candor, and strength. This is an important book, and a fine one.”
Steve Kanji Ruhl author of Appalachian Zen, The Whole Earth is Medicine, and Paintings of Rice Cakes Satisfy Hunger: Poems
