Michael Gouker reviewed Out of the Vietnam vortex by James F. Mersmann
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5 stars
Impressive work by a lover of poetry with a firm grasp of history. Mersmann places the work of the Vietnam-era poets in the context of their times. The book is driven from the poetry first, capturing the essence of the voices of those times, but each essay gives a better picture of their world. It would have been nice to have more poets examined like Adrienne Rice, Gregory Corso, Amiri Baraka, and Gary Snyder.