50 years after the war Hansen continues to mine his time in Vietnam as an 18-year-old machine gunner with the 101st Airborne Division. These poems inform us that no soldier ever grows so old as to see a war's final ripple.
The haunting and evocative poetry of J. Vincent Hansen, coupled with the line drawings of Dick Adair, serve as teacher, historian, and witness to some of the darkest days in American history. The poems in The Kontum Madonna chronicle the many shards of the oft-broken heart of a salt-of-the-earth farm boy from Minnesota forced to perpetrate human atrocities half a world away.
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