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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher P Collins |
ISBN: | 9780820352053 0820352055 |
OCLC Number: | 981162831 |
Notes: | Poems. |
Description: | xii, 65 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | I.Ordering Disorder -- Fragments: #1 -- Ana as'fi -- Meeting -- Gathering Leaves for War -- Meditation on a Blackhawk Landing -- Fragments: #2 -- Crazy, on the Bicycle -- Diminuendo -- Eid Ul-Fitr -- Song for a Lost Team -- Fragments: #3 -- Child of Chicken Street -- Distance -- II.Milk -- Fragments: #4 -- Sleep -- Of That First Night -- Nightscape -- My Neighbor's Apples -- Sometimes, but Always -- A Question of War -- The Basics -- Swing -- On Leaving for Iraq a Second Time -- Fragments: #5 -- The Soldiers Calendar -- A Soldier's Wife -- War -- III.My American Night. |
Other Titles: | Poems. |
Responsibility: | by Christopher P. Collins. |
Abstract:
This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher Collins has taken his tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives.
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