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Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare by lamont b steptoe

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Vietnam War collection by renowned Philadelphia poet lamont b. steptoe. Perfect-bound. 61 pages.


Remarkable and different. It has grace, certainly but also a wiry strength and vivacity most appealing.

- Gwendolyn Brooks


This is poetry that sears with rawness and sings with its incantatory rhythms. He makes understandable some of what Tom Hayden calls the 'inner reality of Vietnam.' Steptoe's work will move many and help others to feel something of the anguish he feels in and for society.

- Dennis Brutus


[Lamont Steptoe is] a most valuable brother/witness.

- James Baldwin


Lamont b. steptoe is a poet/photographer born and raised in Pittsburg, PA and a graduate of Temple University. Steptoe's work has appeared in numerous collections. He was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 1994 and 1999, received a literary fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and was a Discipline Winner in the Literature category of the Pew Fellowship program in Philadelphia. Steptoe is an activist in human rights, environmental, and gay/bisexual issues.

Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare is a moving poetic masterpiece by acclaimed author Lamont B Steptoe. It chronicles his life-changing war experience in Vietnam. The book begins with three letters to his mother, followed by two short poems, climaxing in the epic forty-one-page title poem. A former American soldier, Steptoe s unique voice and perspective provides an alternative to those who question the legitimacy of war and those who feel entitled to their freedom without any sacrifice. But there is always a price to war, often more than in human life. Steptoe dealt with the irony of defending American foreign policy while facing racism from a white military establishment, representing a culture that treated him as less than equal. He faced this as he battled in the jungle. This is his story, that of a reluctant warrior, an impassionate observer with a pen.
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