![]() ![]() Yikes.” The fact that, even amidst a backdrop of war and destruction, there is tenderness and love that is so personal and significant for the speaker is a central theme that runs throughout the collection insofar as it ties in with the collection’s larger project of exploring duality. For the speaker of this collection, however, the Vietnam War encompasses another quality-it is the event that precipitated the birth of his family line, since his origin lies with a “grandfather fucking / pregnant farmgirl in the back of his army jeep.” Or, as rephrased more explicitly in the later poem “Notebook Fragments,” “An American soldier fucked a Vietnamese farmgirl. ![]() The Vietnam War is rightly considered by many, including the speaker of this collection, to have been a time of unimaginable destruction, death, and violence. Buy Study Guide The Many Sides of the Vietnam War ![]()
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