I wanted to like this book more than I did. I had heard good things about it, but I found myself having difficulty getting into it. It was not an easy read for me. It seemed more like a book you would read for a college class than a book you would read for pleasure. The language was a bit flo...
I feel bad for only liking the poems about war and suffering and for finding all his more individualistic and personal poems... predictable? I don't know. I haven't read a poetry book in a long time. There are some strong poems here and some I didn't find all that interesting. Overall, it was goo...
He left after finding the medic’s body sprawled in a spot of sunlight that fell through a hole the mortar made in the broken chapel’s roof. The tall grass was speckled with her blood. He wasn’t at her ceremony, where the brigade sergeant major stood her rifle between her boots and rested her smal...
The Abhorrence of CoincidenceLook, out therethat goddamn lame horsekicks up just the most recent ofthe newly dusted snow, which forms into a pattern,a small ellipsis underneaththe lightning-split dogwood treeyou tried to mendwith wood glue, bandages,and a spool of rusty bailing wire, the end re...