Bruce Weigl's Song of Napalam is another collection of poems dealing with the impact of the Vietnam War. Weigl takes readers on a journey to Vietnam in the late 1960s and explores the anxiety he feels as a soldier in a strange nation. Each poem's narrator carefully observes his surroundings, detailing the corner laundry, the hotel, the jungle, and his fellow soldiers.
"Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heart-wrenching and often very funny poems. It's a narrative, the story of an American's innocent's descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have written the best novel so far about the Vietnam War, and along the way a dozen truly memorable poems."
