{"id":2062,"date":"2015-03-20T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/vietnamwar\/?page_id=2062"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:43:45","slug":"d-f-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/vietnamwar\/poets-and-poetry\/d-f-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"D.F. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D.F. Brown was born in 1948 in Springfield, Missouri. He served in the US Army from 1968-77, including service in Vietnam as a medic. His first book of poetry, <em>Returning Fire<\/em>, was published in 1984.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bulk of his poetry reflects the difficulties of reconciling radical experiences of combat with once accepted notions of normal civilian life.*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr class=' sb-hr' size='1' style='background:black'\/>\n<p>*Thomas Christopher D&#8217;Arcy, &#8216;War Trauma, Recovery Narration and the Need for Resistance: The Case of D.F. Brown&#8217;s Vietnam War Poetry&#8217;,<em> Arts of War and Peace Review,<\/em> Vol.1 No.1, March 2013<\/p>\n<h3>D.F. Brown&#8217;s Poetry<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/vietnamwar\/poem\/even-spoon-weapon\/\">Even the Spoon Is a Weapon<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3>Resources for D.F. Brown<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1-14th.com\/Vietnam\/Misc\/AssumingBlue.html\" target=\"_blank\">D.F. Brown&#8217;s pages on the 1\/14th Infantry website<\/a>, includes some poems and many photographs<\/p>\n<p>Reading at the US Air Force Academy, February 1998 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AgBfut99-9g\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AgBfut99-9g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;War Trauma, Recovery Narration and the Need for Resistance: The Case of D.F. Brown&#8217;s Vietnam War Poetry&#8217;, Thomas Christopher D&#8217;Arcy, <em>Arts of War and Peace Review<\/em>, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awpreview.univ-paris-diderot.fr\/IMG\/pdf\/1.1_6_d_arcyd.f.brown2avr13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.awpreview.univ-paris-diderot.fr\/IMG\/pdf\/1.1_6_d_arcyd.f.brown2avr13.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.F. Brown was born in 1948 in Springfield, Missouri. He served in the US Army from 1968-77, including service in Vietnam as a medic. His first book of poetry, Returning Fire, was published in 1984. 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