A Telegram, Unsigned : Samisdat Vol. 45 #1
Andrews, Michael
Samisdat (1986)
In Collection
#4705
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Poet
Paperback 
Product Details
Edition inscribed
Nationality American
Pub Place Richford, VT
No. of Pages 20
First Edition Yes
Rare Yes
Personal Details
Read It Yes
User Defined
Conflict Vietnam
Notes
Newman 1208.

Only 5 copies on Worldcat.

By turns humorous and tragic, this is a wonderful brief chapbook of personal narratives, three of them in long prose-lined verse, two in prose. Two of the verse narratives are set in Vietnam. One laments the irony of green recruits returning aged in mined or cased in body bags. One reveals the sensual decadence of wartime Saigon. The two prose narratives are set in Central America in 1979 during the Nicaraguan civil war. The author, between 1969 and 1971, "programmed computers for MACV in Saigon. -- Newman 538

Inscribed by author: "For Art, Thanks, Michael"


MICHAEL ANDREWS, co-founder/publisher/editor with Jack Grapes of Bombshelter Press and ONTHEBUS, is living, for the moment, in L.A. and getting by. He has published 9 books of poetry, and 8 fine print poetry/photography portfolios. He has traveled around the world twice, spent time in Vietnam and Iran, rode a motorcycle to Peru, ran the San Juan River and spent a month in the Peruvian Amazon. His leg was seriously damaged in a motorcycle accident in 1987. He and Dave Widup completed a book of poems about Vietnam, In Country. He has just finished two unpublishable novels and his first book of philosophy, The Gnomes Of Uncertainty. He worked as a civilian in Vietnam from 1969 through 1971. Until the outsourcing of the Bush economic catastrophe, he worked as a computer programmer/analyst. -- from Michael Andrews Bio page on beachnet.com