Warrior of the Heart

"When Dan Barker's manuscript came "over the transom," we knew it was the answer to our publishing prayers. What arrived that day was one of the finest Viet Nam war narratives that we'd ever read. And we'd read hundreds. We never did figure out if "Warrior of the Heart" (The Snake That Became A Tiger) was poetry or prose, and we don't really care. It's fucking beautiful, and it doesn't flinch. Dan Barker served as a naval corpsman attached to the Marine Corps in Viet Nam. He is the founder and director of The Home Gardening Project, which has built over 1,100 raised-bed vegetable gardens for the aged, disabled and single-parent families of Portland, Oregon." Kali Tal