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Poems from a young American soldier in Vietnam; Perspectives from time and place. We like to think we have come vast intellectual and emotional distances from our ancestors, and yet, when the face of death confronts us, we feel--if not see--how little we have changed from those ancestors and how tiny a piece of the universe within which we actually exist. It is at that moment when poetry and story become the umbilical making survival worthy of the effort to survive. And so it is with Nemo, a boy turned soldier searching the planet in hopes of understanding his childhood losses and discovers only more loss until he unexpectedly senses another, even more ancient stranger who has fled his own world of war and loss. They both begin to understand that if they are to heal, the old aphorism ""Home is where the heart is"" must become a two-way street which embraces ""Heart is where the home is."" The ancient, elder veteran realizes that only by serving as a guardian of his younger veteran's emotions, they both might keep their hearts and eventually find their way home--that place where like Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov and Homer's Odysseus--they might finally bury their oars.

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Rodger Martin's For All The Tea in Zhōngguó (2019) follows The Battlefield Guide, (Hobblebush Books: 2010, 2013) and the selection of The Blue Moon Series, (Hobblebush Books: 2007) by Small Press Review which was one of its bi-monthly picks of the year. Most recently he has been a major contributor for NatureCulure(R)'s Writing The Land(R) anthologies.Martin's distinctions include serving as a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in Education roster artist and a touring artist for the New England States Touring Foundation, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts. He has done artist-in-residency programs throughout New England. In 2012, he represented the United States as one of twelve poets participating in the City of Hangzhou's literary festival on West Lake, China. In 2015 he was a visiting poet at Nanjing University and Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, where in 2017 his poem ""The Anchor"" has been mounted at the reflecting pool where it was inspired. He returned to Yancheng with six other American poets as part of the Poetry Bridging Continents III Conference. His awards include the 2024 Stanley Kunitz Medal for his lifelong commitment to poetry; an Appalachia award for poetry; a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts award for fiction; and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities to study T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy at Oxford University and John Milton at Duquesne University. In 2018, Meg Kearney chose one of Martin's poems for permanent trail mounting at Cathedral of The Pines. His publications include literary journals and anthologies throughout the United States and China where he also wrote a series of essays on American poetry for The Yangtze River Journal. He and six colleagues, as part of The Monadnock Pastoral Poets, have been featured in a new book On the Monadnock: New Pastoral Poetry released in China in 2007. 2013 marked the completion of a decade-long project with Dr. B. Eugene McCarthy to adapt all twelve books of the epic poem Paradise Lost for dramatic reading. His critical work ""The Colonization of Paradise: Milton's Pandemonium and Montezuma's Tenochtitlan"" published in Comparative Literature Studies broke new ground in Milton studies. In addition to his writing, Martin teaches journalism and Creative Writing at Keene State College, co-advises The Equinox, the college's award-winning student news organization.He was managing editor of The Worcester Review for almost three decades, and for six years he directed New Hampshire's Poetry Foundation's Poetry Out Loud Project. Rodger Martin was born in the amish country of Pennsylvania, lived in England as a child, and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam.

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