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by: Lamont B. Steptoe
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781882611072
ISBN: 1882611071
Label: Yardbird
Manufacturer: Yardbird
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1994-09
Publisher: Yardbird
Sales Rank: 6548528
Studio: Yardbird
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Rating:  - A series of Photgraphs
Lamont B. Steptoe's work is a powerful reflection on one man's experiences during the Vietnamese was. The experience of reading the slim volume (only 61 pages) is very much like flipping through a series photographs. The imagery is that powerful and abrupt. Continued sexual references in the main piece become a bit redundant after a while, yet it is clear to the reader that sex and phallic references are symbolic of power and the struggle to gain it in the author's subconscious. Overall, however, ... Read More
Rating: - A Brave Soul
This is one brave soul who knows what hard times feel like. War and poverty. And to express those feelings he paints minds with photos and images with words. His poetry is urban steele during the big industrial age. Raw and very valuable. Steptoe not only delivers what he has seen throught life to the door step of your eyes, but he challenges you to ask yourself were are you going next. A man, a poet, and surviver.
Rating:  - In Country
Reading Steptoe's "Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare" will make you understand the horrors of war. His reflections upon his time spent in Vietnam are a must read for anyone living in this nation at this time, or any nation, as a matter of fact. His poems are horrifyingly splendid and heart wrienching. As we inch upon the horizon of the second Vietnam war, Steptoe's poems have an appropriate place on the bookshelves and minds of all people. Reading this book has taught me that the more things ... Read More
Rating: - Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare
Lamont B. Steptoe provides insight into the daily atrocities that occurred during the Vietnam War in Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare. Steptoe opens his book with sincere and candid letters teeming with vulnerability from a young solider to his mother. The book continues with a series of raw poems that all start with the phrase `In country' that eloquently describe the horrors of the war. The vivid descriptions of the bloody carnage are interwoven with reflections from a solider on the senselessness ... Read More
Rating: - Affective, Powerful
Reading Steptoe's "Uncle's South China Blue Sea" is like watching a graphic war movie, a true marker of his ability. In a few pages of poetry, I saw exotic landscapes, tangible pain, a past so unforgetable that it's managed to follow all those involved into the present, a scarred people, and a generation forever changed. A Worthwhile Read!
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