Doug Anderson Reads from His New Memoir
Broadside Bookshop, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 7pm
Doug Anderson , Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery.
Doug Anderson is best known as a powerful poet, as evidenced by his two collections, The Moon Reflected Fire and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police. Now he offers us Keep Your Head Down, a memoir of coming of age in the sixties, serving in Vietnam as a combat medical corpsman, and living through the personal and social aftermath of the war. Tautly written and courageously honest, this is one of the most riveting first-person narratives of the last several years. (booksense)… (more)
Doug Anderson is best known as a powerful poet, as evidenced by his two collections, The Moon Reflected Fire and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police. Now he offers us Keep Your Head Down, a memoir of coming of age in the sixties, serving in Vietnam as a combat medical corpsman, and living through the personal and social aftermath of the war. Tautly written and courageously honest, this is one of the most riveting first-person narratives of the last several years. (booksense)… (more)
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