Red Silk

by Maryfrances Wagner

Maryfrances Wagner's poems, arranged as both a personal memoir and a cultural history of America's past four decades, accumulate into an inclusive, sympathetic document of post-nuclear American life--from the ravages of the Viet Nam War, to the poet's battle with ill health, to her loving acceptance of middle age in middle America.

Genres: Poetry

84 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1999

Reviews

[Bob Sommer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moving and powerful, Maryfrances Wagner’s “Red Silk” is a journey from childhood to war and back again. Wagner’s verses simmer with imagery that commingles the ordinariness of household life with the ordnance of Vietnam’s free fire zones.