J. Michael Gross, ex 2062390 USMC 1964-1968.
The magic of this book threatened to change an international bum steer and a Canadian cow grazing placidly north of a strange pasture in Boundary Bay, Point Roberts, Wa. into poetry that may change your mind about what the USA is now, what art must become from what it has been before it lost its justification in the eyes of a total involvement world, what a human being is always, and just what is, eternally.

Like autumn in Boundary Bay, Yankees Gone Home leaves you bluebare to the Pacific seawind red shivering branches shaking a dream spring green from a passing era... and a gliding heron across your eyes forever.

Yankee go home. Yankee going home. Yankee gone home. Watching Canadian cows from his American from porch of the world in Boundary Bay, Point Roberts, Washington, a tiny barren peninsula geographically accessible by land only through Canada. The poetry of bringing it all back home free, from two years in uniform in Viet Nam and the Far East.

excerpt fromYankees Gone home