Ausable Press: About Bruce Weigl


	BACK \| SELECTED POEMS \| AUTHOR EVENTS About Bruce Weigl Bruce Weigl is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, several translations, and the best-selling memoir The Circle of Hanh. He has been awarded many honors, including the Paterson Poetry Prize, Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Yaddo Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Weigl lives in Oberlin, Ohio. IN HIS OWN WORDS “The paradox of my life as a writer is that the war ruined my life and in return gave me my voice. The war robbed me of my boyhood and forced me, at 18 years old, to bear too much witness of the world, and to what men were capable of doing to other men, and to children, and to women, and to themselves, trapped in the green inscrutable intention of the jungle.” “Charlie Simic told me a long time ago that the world had given me a subject, and that I could not be a writer and turn my back on that subject. I listened to him. And, although I’ve continued to write about Vietnam, I no longer write about the war per se, but about the country, which I’ve come to love very much as a result of many visits there as a translator and visiting writer.”