{"product_id":"truth-and-other-lies-pris-campbell-9781949279405","title":"Truth and Other Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese fierce poems bleed love and loss, knotted with a personal reckoning of a \"Vietnam of the soul\" shared with a vanished husband whom neither divorce nor death can finally erase. Pris Campbell cuts herself to the quick and keeps going. Her wounds become a blessing in art, a gift to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Weddle\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the\u003cem\u003e Eudora Welty Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this poignant collection, Pris Campbell tells us the story of how she fell in love, waited for him while he trained as a naval officer at OCS, got married in the romantically magical land of Hawaii, and then divorced all the while the Vietnam War was ripping the soul of America in two. Campbell masterfully casts a spell over us as she relives their past and how the present is haunted by the hopes and dreams of her first marriage. History, particularly the events on the fringes and margins of a horrific war, walks side by side with their fated romance, told by an exemplary humane narrator.\"- \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Parker\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDivining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrief takes on many faces, shifts hot and cold, changes through the omnivorous jaws of time. In Pris Campbell's most recent book, \u003cem\u003eTruth and Other Lies\u003c\/em\u003e, we learn how a war can consume not only its soldiers, but also those who loved them. Her vivid and honest poems put architecture to the thinning walls of angst and PTSD. In full color, set in the trauma of the 1960's anti-war movement, we find a collection of poems that draws us toward empathy and compassion, finding in \"Fourteen Months,\" an uncommon truth: \"He's dead two years and a half now... poems spill out like the turning tide he rode on then and ride again now, touching me occasionally within our shared Vietnam of the soul.\" This is narrative poetry at a visceral level, provocative, naked, and essential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eEdward Nudelman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThin Places\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pris Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949279405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949279405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nixes Mate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.50h x 6.50w x 0.16d","brand":"Pris Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994729742591,"sku":"9781949279405","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_876c284b-afda-45f5-b51f-1d3ea1531b9f.jpg?v=1683331850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-and-other-lies-pris-campbell-9781949279405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}