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Taken from Two Reviews of Self-published Books by Min Warburton (reviewer):
Remembrances: True Stories of a Reluctant Warrior
by rg cantalupo
(self-published, 2022)
A Long Way Home
by Terry Raycraft
(BookBaby, 2021)
Two books, both self-published, highlight the pros and cons of self-publishing.
Ross Canton aka rg cantalupo's Remembrances: True Stories of a Reluctant Warrior is a slim poetry book—fourteen poems and two letters, one to a Vietnam buddy, and one to his first wife, Janice. The letters are letters of love, sorrow, sadness, and repentance, the essence of all true remembrance. Between the pages of poems, there are also photographs of American and Vietnamese faces. If you were there, they will take you back, but gently I think. The poems—I have read them, read them again, and then read them aloud.
"…I was done with War long before/War was done with me…" is a line that echoes and reverberates. It is, for many soldiers, a simple truth eloquently stated.... Read More Also In This Issue:
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