KINGS of the GREEN JELLY MOON presents a searing collection of poetry written by a group of Vietnam veteranseach successful in their craft, all award-winning poets in their own right. The title Kings of the Green Jelly Moon recalls the innocence of childhood, a time when children believed the moon was made of green cheese. Then Vietnam changed an innocent generation as truth of war became their reality. From the impact of war on young men and how they are forever changed to the stark reality that ?ghting in a foreign country, the poems in the collection o?er, in verse, a Vietnam veterans reunion. These soldiers were forever changed by the experience that war forces upon those who ?ght and return from battle. Those who were lost can never be forgotten. Kings of the Green Jelly Moon bares the still aching soul of the Vietnam veteran. Whether the writers pick at the scab, pour salt into a still bleeding wound, or lave on cooling salve to ease the hurt, the poetry herein will make a lasting impression the reader will not soon forget. D. H. Brown, award-winning author of Honor Defended and Honor Due
Kings of the Green Jelly Moon
It puts much of the pent-up feelings and emotions into words where they can best be dealt with. If you have chosen this book, you may also wish to purchase Pass The Salt Doc and Kings of the Green Jelly Moon.
(Johnson was a contributor to the original Sub Pop fanzine, several years before Beat Happening's first release.) Further exposure was granted by the involvement of producers Steve Fisk, Mark Lanegan, and Gary Lee Connor, ...
Kings and NASA operate like nature with her broadcast often thousand seeds or a million spores for one plant. Without idiotic wastefulness we should not have all our palaces and gardens and tiny jewelled fragments of the moon for our ...
A Caldecott Honor Book, ALA Notable Children's Book, & Children's BOMC Main. King Bidgood's in the Bathtub-and he won't get out! Can the Knight lure him from the tub? Can the Duke? Or the Queen'.