WHEREAS

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis WHEREAS by : Layli Long Soldier

Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Soldier

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Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Soldier by : June Jordan

Download or read book Soldier written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.

Gi-Blues

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Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467087394
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Gi-Blues by : Blues

Download or read book Gi-Blues written by Blues and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has hopes that the reader will identify with her writing. Her perspective is that of a woman, a mother, a wife, and a soldier. Her experiences are projected through her poetry. She wants the reader to hear, feel, and experience different emotions, and draw their own opinions and views. She expects them to relate, agree and disagree with her writing. She hopes that in many ways it provokes a sense of consciousness, by reflecting on subjects dealing with love, hate, death, and life. The author has a particular genre of poetic style, using rhyme, free write, end rhymes, internal rhymes, and list poems, in which most tell a story. The book also contains love serenades, haiku’s, and some military poems. All that makes for a enjoyable and interesting reading. Her pin name, “Blues” represents poetic sound, color and thought. In her expressions she gives “Blues” a style of living, yet most poets would call it voice. But however way you perceive it, the dialogue should be memorable.

The Stick Soldiers

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Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 193816007X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stick Soldiers by : Hugh Martin

Download or read book The Stick Soldiers written by Hugh Martin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio. Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Unaccustomed Mercy

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Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896721890
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Unaccustomed Mercy by : William Daniel Ehrhart

Download or read book Unaccustomed Mercy written by William Daniel Ehrhart and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every poet in this anthology represents the terrible beauty that Vietnam engendered in sensitive hearts, the curious grace with which the human spirit can endow even the ugliest realities."No one will get out of this volume without being hammered in the heart and singed in the soul. I could touch the tears on page after page."--Wallace Terry

Here, Bullet

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Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584147
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis Here, Bullet by : Brian Turner

Download or read book Here, Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Afterland

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979645
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis Afterland by : Mai Der Vang

Download or read book Afterland written by Mai Der Vang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.

The Ghost Soldiers

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061436941
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ghost Soldiers by : James Tate

Download or read book The Ghost Soldiers written by James Tate and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fifteenth collection of poems by American poet James Tate, featuring nearly one hundred selections that showcase his sense of the absurd.

A Soldier's Book of Poems

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525581082
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis A Soldier's Book of Poems by : E.J. Hardy

Download or read book A Soldier's Book of Poems written by E.J. Hardy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been medically released from the Canadian Armed Forces after 33 years of service, I found myself dealing with the realities of no longer being able to work, a continually deteriorating state of health, and a significant amount of time on my hands. These poems were an outlet for my pent-up emotions. Importantly, these poems were written while in a deep depression and with heavy substance us/abuse. They are raw, abstract at times, mostly unedited and get dark at the end. Read them as I wrote them. That is where my mind was at the time.

World War II Poetry

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ISBN 13 : 9780578412078
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis World War II Poetry by : Herbert Engelhardt

Download or read book World War II Poetry written by Herbert Engelhardt and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short poems about the author's time as a soldier in World War II. The author was born in New Jersey in 1925 and has lived in New York's Greenwich Village since 1952. He started writing poetry at age 75.

Unknown Soldier

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Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845234515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Unknown Soldier by : Seni Seneviratne

Download or read book Unknown Soldier written by Seni Seneviratne and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1941. Two signalmen meet for the first time in an army camp in the North African desert. The only surviving record of the friendship is an album of black and white photographs. The subject of the photographs is the first soldier, a twenty-four year old Ceylonese telephone and telegraph fitter who in 1940 enlisted in the Royal Signals. The second soldier is the photographer. This is the starting point for Seni Seneviratne's third collection. Through the photographs she finds the voices of the two men and thus begins her journey to meet her father, the first soldier, the unknown soldier.

The Soldier's Poem Book

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Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1616631392
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis The Soldier's Poem Book by : Charles E. Stebbins

Download or read book The Soldier's Poem Book written by Charles E. Stebbins and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our freedom is not free Go to any cemetery and see Look for any serviceman's grave See what price he had to pay Freedom comes at a high cost. Men and women are willing to fight and die for our great country, and they encounter some of the greatest emotional struggles of all. Soldiers have families and loved ones they miss dearly while miles away in the heart of battle. Soldiers have lost friends while fighting. Soldiers have formed lifelong friendships with those that make it through the battle with them. Here, in A Soldier's Poem Book, readers will gain insight into the heart of mind of some of our country's finest, the ones willing to pay the price for the freedom we enjoy. Many times, long after the battles end, these are the thoughts of a dedicated soldier, husband, father, and God-fearing man. These pages are a reminder that many have served and many more will serve to keep our country strong under God.

Warrior Poet

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Warrior Poet by : Robin Horsfall

Download or read book Warrior Poet written by Robin Horsfall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, high quality book by a true war poet. Robin Horsfall became a soldier in 1972. He served from the age of fifteen up to the age of thirty-two with the Parachute Regiment, the SAS, the Sultans of Oman's Armed Forces, the Army of Sri Lanka and was a Major in 'Frelimo' the Army of Mozambique. He studied Karate for most of his adult life achieving the rank of 6th Dan Black Belt until 2011 when a neck fracture changed his life. During his recovery he went to Surrey University (something that would have astonished his parents and school teachers) and studied English literature with creative writing. He graduated in 2016. He found a joy in the forms and rhythms of poetry. In 2018 he was diagnosed with bladder cancer but recovered after surgery. The collection is in many ways a soldier's story in poetry. A warrior poet, he has kindly been compared to other, more famous war poets.

If I Should Die

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ISBN 13 : 9781857996562
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis If I Should Die by : Rupert Brooke

Download or read book If I Should Die written by Rupert Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Welcome to FOB Haiku

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ISBN 13 : 9780996931700
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Welcome to FOB Haiku by : Randy Brown

Download or read book Welcome to FOB Haiku written by Randy Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sherpatude no. 26: 'Humor is a combat multiplier ...' Has your war become workaday? Does life on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) now seem commonplace? Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism -- and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest -- journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again." --

New Poets of Native Nations

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979998
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis New Poets of Native Nations by : Heid E. Erdrich

Download or read book New Poets of Native Nations written by Heid E. Erdrich and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth—long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now. Poets included are Tacey M. Atsitty, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Laura Da’, Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry, Jr., Sy Hoahwah, LeAnne Howe, Layli Long Soldier, Janet McAdams, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Margaret Noodin, dg okpik, Craig Santos Perez, Tommy Pico, Cedar Sigo, M. L. Smoker, Gwen Westerman, and Karenne Wood.

Deaf Republic

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978800
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Book Synopsis Deaf Republic by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book Deaf Republic written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.