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J. CRUICKSHANK MUIR
J. Cruickshank Muir, MEd, is a decorated, disabled Marine Corps combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He served as a Marine Embassy Guard with the U.S. State Department in Europe at the height of the Cold War and lived a significant part of that era's history.
A poet, essayist and educator, he has been active in local, regional and national veterans concerns for more than 30 years. A recently retired high school Social Studies teacher, he has been, at various times, an exceptionally bad salesman, and a very good production manager and casting director for film and television.
Married in 1980, he lives with his wife and two children in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Tigers and Songbirds is poetry, not a textbook or a sermon. A response to combat in time of war, and to a lifetime of reclaiming the lost self, it is a work of surpassing honesty, clarity, sense, soul and beauty. Wrought in battle but far exceeding the scope of war, it lays bare the soldier's brutal initiation and transformation in the crucible of combat, as well as the nightmare aftermath the sudden and unceremonious drop back into the world into a society that still has no rituals for reintegrating its weary, wounded warriors. For the veterans of Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and now, Iraq, here is a spare, authentic, powerful voice to speak what has been the unspeakable. Both strange and familiar, discomfiting and reassuring,
Tigers and Songbirds is brutal truth, sometimes framed in dark humor. It speaks from and to the heart and the mind of the combat veteran, the loved ones lost and gained, the hurting, and the healers.
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