The War Makes Everyone Lonely / Graham Barnhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnhart, Graham, Author.

Series:

Phoenix poets.

Phoenix Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War poetry, American.

Afghan War, 2001-2021--Poetry.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Poetry.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780226660639

022666063X

OCLC:

1110108111