Description: Doug Anderson's second book of poetry, Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, deals powerfully with his Vietnam experience, the fear and eventual acceptance of aging, and the complexity of personal relationships. Growing out of Anderson's experience as a field medical corpsman in Vietnam, the poems are about everything from bad politics to love gone wrong. They have a blues sensibility and are often funny (but with a hook embedded in the humor), commenting wryly on the ripeness of the body and the persistence of lust. But these poems are also about keeping language alive in a world deadened by pop icons and cliches -- about trying to find the language within the inflated and hollow language of the times.

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