New Books
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston (Koa Books, 2006)
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace features the nonfiction, fiction, and poetry of 80 veterans who participated in Maxine Hong Kingston’s “Veteran’s Writing Workshop.” For more than twelve years, the National Book Award-winning author has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. The contributors to this book—combat veterans, medics, and others who served in war; gang members, drug users, and victims of domestic violence; draft resisters, deserters, and peace activists—are part of a community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art. The Chicago Tribune calls the book “powerful and finely written.” (Source: http://vowvop.org/index.htm)
Maxine Hong Kingston is the best-selling author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded her with the National Humanities Medal.
—Compiled by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
