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by Edward Tick (Author)
Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr. Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years. This moving and revelatory collection documents the people, places, and experiences on these journeys. It illuminates the soul-searching and healing that occurs when Vietnamese women and children and veterans of every faction of the "American War" gather together to share storytelling and ritual, grieving, reconciliation, and atonement. These poems reveal war's aftermath for Vietnamese and Americans alike and their return to peace, healing, and belonging in the very land torn by war's horrors.
Author Biography
EDWARD TICK is a poet, psychotherapist, international activist, and journey leader honored for his forty years of pioneering work healing the invisible wounds of war and violent trauma. Cofounder of Soldier's Heart, Inc., and subject matter expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury for the US military, he is the author of four nonfiction books, including the groundbreaking War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veteran's from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul after War, as well as two previous books of poetry. Nationally and internationally, Tick guides war survivors to achieve healing, meaning, reconciliation, and friendship. His work is devoted to healing from millenniums of collective trauma and restoring soul and spirit in our modern world.
