Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 84 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780226660639
Series Statement:
Phoenix poets
Content:
In his first collection of poems, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory, trauma, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and expressionist forms, the poems here display a strange, quiet power as Barnhart engages in the pursuit and recognition of wonder, even while concerned with whether it is right to do so in the fraught space of the war zone. We follow the speaker as he treads the line between duty and the horrors of war, honor and compassion for the victims of violence, and the struggle to return to the daily life of family and society after years of trauma. Evoking the landscapes and surroundings of war, as well as its effects on both US military service members and civilians in war-stricken countries, The War Makes Everyone Lonely is a challenging, nuanced look at the ways American violence is exported, enacted, and obscured by a writer poised to take his place in the long tradition of warrior-poets
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Belated Letter to My Grandmother -- What Being in the Army Did -- What’s It Like? -- Call to Prayer -- Aubade between Deployments -- 1900 -- Pissing in Irbil -- The War Makes Everyone Lonely -- Sewing -- Goat in the Cleared Village -- Notice and Focus Exercise -- The Coffee Aisle -- After Sterilizing the Canteens -- My Pittsburgh -- Telling You I Will Deploy Again -- Days of 2009 -- Post 9/11 Gas Training (I) -- How to Stay Awake on a Training Exercise -- Survival and Evasion -- Somnambulant -- Breach -- How to Stop the Bleeding -- First Life -- Medics Don’t Earn Killstreaks -- Pashtu Refresher -- Certificates of Training -- Informant -- Deserving (I) -- Post 9/11 Gas Training (II) -- Range Detail -- Indiana-stan -- Tinder Pic -- Cultivating Mass -- Downed Pilot -- On the Evening Before My Departure -- Pre-Deployment Chaplain’s Brief -- The Road to Pol-e- Khomri -- Tourists -- Augury -- 0300 -- Blocking an Imagined War Movie -- Medical Refresher -- Failure Drills -- A Fable -- Shura -- Days of Spring, 2016 -- Capabilities Brief -- 0500 -- Deserving (II) -- How to Transition a Province -- Self-Portrait with Wedding, Vineyard, and Gunshot -- Unpracticed -- Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing -- Notes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226660462
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Barnhart, Graham The war makes everyone lonely Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 ISBN 9780226660462
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226660639
URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/chicago/view/title/569404
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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