Poetic Healing
A Vietnam Veteran's Journey from a Communication Perspective
Published on 28. November 2004
320 pages
978-1-932559-55-2 (ISBN)
Description
Recounts the poetic healing of a Vietnam veteran with poetry and plays. Describes the five phases of healing through commentary and explores intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, dialectic, and metaphysics, as well as suicide and anti-relational and relational communication.
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Mark E. Huglen | Basil B. Clark
Poetic Healing
A Vietnam Veteran's Journey from a Communication Perspective, Revised and Expanded Edition
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11/2004
Parlor Press
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Mark E. Huglen (Ph.D., Wayne State University, Detroit) teaches communication at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. Basil B. Clark (M.A., University of Kentucky; MA, Morehead State University) was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action, and two Bronze Stars, one for heroism in ground combat, while in Vietnam.
Content
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Enrollment and Recognition of Pain
- A Series of Poems on Tinnitus
- Commentary: The Problem of Pain
- Chapter 2: Reflections of War in a Postwar Terrain
- Poetic Recollections of War
- Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink
- To Choose or Not To Choose, That Is the Consequence
- Commentary: The Root Metaphor, and Reflections
- Chapter 3: Engaging Postwar Zones of Combat
- Obstacle Battlers Anonymous
- The Question of God and Patriotism
- A Father's Prayer
- Commentary:Metaphysics and Other Dynamics
- Chapter 4: Burning the Postwar Terrain
- The Complicated Self
- Commentary:The Dreadful Shadowlands
- Chapter 5: Beyond the Postwar Mindset
- Water
- Commentary: Living in the Garden
- Chapter 6: Conclusion
- Bernard L. Brock: Afterword: Transformation to a Symbolic Reality
- Authors and Contributor
- Works Cited
- Back Cover
