copyright 1972; University of Georgia Press, Athens; includes original flyer "from the University of Georgia Press, Poetry Series"; smaller hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages except for original owner signature on title page; no dust jacket.
 
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Berry was a medic in Vietnam. His poignant poetry uses the voices of dead combatants to describe their experiences.
 
David Chapman Berry was born July 23, 1942, in Vicksburg, but he grew up in Greenville. He received a B.S. at Delta State College and then, after turning down medical school, he worked a year for General Motors. He served as a medical service officer for three years in Vietnam, where he wrote his first volume of poetry, Saigon Cemetery (1972). He is now an English professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.