Among Elms, in Ambush

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First printing: 2, 000 copies. Bruce Weigl is the winner of the 2018 Isabella Gardner Award. This is his first hybrid collection of poetic prose nonfiction. Weigl's previous collection, On the Shores of Welcome Home, won the 2018 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA in 2019. BOA published Weigl's translation of Nguy¿^n Phan Qué^ Mai's The Secret of Hoa Sen (BOA, 2013) as part of the Lannan Translation Series. Weigl has won numerous awards for his work, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Poet's Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yaddo Foundation. Weigl is one of six poets featured in the 2015 documentary film Poetry of Witness, which interviews six contemporary poets who have survived such extremities as war, torture, exile, and repression. The other poets profiled in the documentary are Carolyn Forché (Salvadoran Civil War), Saghi Ghahraman (Iranian Revolution), Fady Joudah (Doctors Without Borders), Claudia Serea (Socialist Republic of Romania), and Mario Susko (Bosnian War). One of the most popular and influential living military veteran poets, Bruce Weigl draws on his personal experience serving during the Vietnam War. This collection continues to seek, in the poet's own words, "the beauty of a thing said straight" while exploring how both memories of the war and Weigl's ongoing relationship with the people of Vietnam continue to evolve with age. Strong regional appeal in the Upper Great Lakes region and in communities with large Vietnamese populations and Vietnam War veterans.