Overview
"Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr. Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years. This moving and revelatory collection documents the people, places, and experiences on these journeys. It illuminates the soul-searching and healing that occurs when Vietnamese women and children and veterans of every faction of the ""American War"" gather together to share storytelling and ritual, grieving, reconciliation, and atonement. These poems reveal war's aftermath for Vietnamese and Americans alike and their return to peace, healing, and belonging in the very land torn by war's horrors."
Full Product Details
Author: Edward Tick
Publisher: Tia Chucha Press
Imprint: Tia Chucha Press
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9781882688609
ISBN 10: 1882688600
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Ed Tick has devoted his life to listening and healing, with a particular call to the plight of veterans. His many books have reclaimed what it means to be a healer in the modern world. After decades of healing journeys to Viet Nam, this major poetry collection speaks to the braid of courage and compassion that waits in each of us. Journey with this wise healer and it will heal something deep in you. --Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Awakening and More Together Than Alone PRAISE FOR EDWARD TICK'S WAR AND THE SOUL With a resounding salute to those who have given their lives, this book empowers us to overcome the soul loss that is the result of all wars. --Jan Scruggs, Vietnam Memorial Founder
PRAISE FOR EDWARD TICK'S WAR AND THE SOUL With a resounding salute to those who have given their lives, this book empowers us to overcome the soul loss that is the result of all wars. --Jan Scruggs, Vietnam Memorial Founder
Author Information
EDWARD TICK is a poet, psychotherapist, international activist, and journey leader honored for his forty years of pioneering work healing the invisible wounds of war and violent trauma. Cofounder of Soldier's Heart, Inc., and subject matter expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury for the US military, he is the author of four nonfiction books, including the groundbreaking War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veteran's from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul after War, as well as two previous books of poetry. Nationally and internationally, Tick guides war survivors to achieve healing, meaning, reconciliation, and friendship. His work is devoted to healing from millenniums of collective trauma and restoring soul and spirit in our modern world.
