Stopping by Home

Huddle, David

ISBN 10: 0879055219 / ISBN 13: 9780879055219

Published by Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, UT, 1988

About this Item

Inscribed "For Henry and Frannie" and signed "David." 53 pp. Poetry. A Peregrine Smith Book. From the library of poet Henry Taylor.

Seller Inventory # 012931

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stopping by Home
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, UT
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879055219
• ISBN 13: 9780879055219
• Binding: Wrappers
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Book by Huddle, David

Reviews

Huddle's first volume of poetry, Paper Boy ( LJ 2/1/79), received good notices, as did his story collections. Divided into four sections, his second volume of poetry is important because of its sequence of poems about Vietnam. "Tour of Duty" presents, in 18 informal sonnets, a soldier's memory of the war: "I'm forty-six. I was twenty-three then./ I'm here with what I've dreamed or remembered." These episodic narratives color the other three sections, keeping in the reader's mind dislocations the speaker seeks to understand as renewal and reconciliation is approached. "Tour of Duty" compares favorably with the work of W.D. Ehrhart, our leading chronicler in verse of the Vietnam War.
- Vincent D. Balitas, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.
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