{"product_id":"still-looking-for-neuzil-9781646623983","title":"Still Looking for Neuzil","description":"\u003cp\u003eI love the fluidity of memory and identity in \u003cem\u003eStill Looking for Neuzil \u003c\/em\u003ebecause both are pungent with terror and love. Time is against the speaker because he is against himself as movingly as the speakers in the best dark Coleridge poems. The veteran de-creates the world and the self in an attempt, however desperate, to make peace with \"Being Back in the World.\" In Fredson's poems this hopeful and disheartening mantra burns far into the 21st Century. Still Looking for Neuzil should receive the fanfare of a book like Catch 22 if \"Americans in the 21st Century still have the capacity to feel. I consider the terse, obsessive quality of this book, and, though it is not fashionable to quote Arthur Rimbaud, I will: Fredson's book fulfills Rimbaud's exhortation that a visionary must sustain \"a long, boundless, systematized disorganization of the senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Rich Lyons\u003c\/strong\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eUn Poco Loco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mike offers us a powerful voice that at once becomes poetry as therapy. He takes us into the horrors of the Vietnam War and its lifelong psychological cost to him through a direct and deeply personal exploration of war trauma. He doesn't speak about his PTSD; he speaks from it. This book is a gift to all soldiers who live in the dissonance between war and civilian life, as well as the psychotherapists who work with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Angelina Renes\u003c\/strong\u003e, Psychotherapist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf war poetry, or, more specifically, the poetry of soldiering, has focused on experiences within war-its moments of no return, of being at peak intensity or in the contrasting troughs of waiting, of intgrospection-then Fredson's poems aim at something else: the life sentence of veteran-ship. \u003cem\u003eStill Looking for Neuzil \u003c\/em\u003eis a longitudinal reckoning with the fifty years since Fredson's service in the Vietnam-American War. The war continues to kill well beyond any theater of combat. Ghosts crowd out family. The instinct to disguise oneself as human, day in and day out, after such utter de-humanization, is obscene. The war wears through, always, eventually. The speaker's life is overwhelmed by his service timed and by the war, even as the war is forgotten or revised in our national and popular memory. \u003cem\u003eStill Looking for Neuzil \u003c\/em\u003eis crucial reading in a country now permanently at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Sarah Vap\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWinter: Effulgences and Devotions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFredson, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Fredson is a VA-rated totally disabled Vietnam veteran who served in 1969-70 in Tay Ninh. Fredson received his MFA from University of Arizona in 1978. He is the author of several local history books about his home in Washington State. He lives on Hood Canal and is the father of two children.","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861630423314,"sku":"9781646623983","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c742839d-0507-4cd4-b6fd-cecf5d30678a.jpg?v=1737600797","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/still-looking-for-neuzil-9781646623983","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}