Johnny's Song - Softcover

Mason, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067166381X ISBN 13: 9780671663810

Publisher: Touchstone Books, 1988

Synopsis

The decorated Vietnam combat veteran and Poet Laureate of the Vietnam Veteran's Association evokes the fury and confusion, the camaraderie and heroism, of the combat soldier's experience of the Vietnam War

About this title

From School Library Journal:

YA Mason, named the National Poet Laureate of the Vietnam Veterans of America, has collected poems that he has written for and read at memorials and to groups of veterans. In one he points out the day-to-day acceptance of war with the image of a mother screaming from her front door, "Johnny, for the last time put down those peace treaties and come in the house this instant you can play Geneva Convention after Dinner." Although the poems have a direct appeal to the Vietnam veterans and their families and friends, YAs will also be stirred by Mason's work. He writes of the guilt of the living, the bereavement of the families, and the dislike for those who "didn't go" but instead relied upon favorable lottery numbers. To understand this war, YAs need to "feel" it. By reading Mason's poetry, they will. Pam Spencer, Mount Vernon High School Library, Fairfax, Va.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 067166381X
• ISBN 13: 9780671663810
• Binding: Paperback