101 Poems Of The War In Afghanistan

Soldiers go through a lot of emotional pain and they tend not to share their feelings with others. The military looks down upon any soldier that indicate to them that they may have emotional issue. In fact, some units have degraded soldiers publicly and humiliated them for their feelings. This book of poems is an attempt to reach those soldiers, wives, and military leaders and help them understand some of the rage within these men and women.

This is a poetry book I finished after writing many poems while stationed in BAF Afghanistan. I can never fully explain my experiences but everyone sees life and moments differently. I added some of my works from before and after so some you will figure out that I was not in a desert and some you may not know like free preview and yes it does rain even in the desert but was I there are was I somewhere else I cannot remember.

"As part of an oral tradition, these poems avoid the complex, mystical, and abstract forms of their cultural canon. There is no aspiration whatsoever toward an unfavorable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, these poems are songs of the earth." "Here the active voice of the Afghan woman affirms simple pleasures and bemoans widespread suffering. The poems celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dams, and night's magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, death and beauty."--Jacket.

This is a collection in English of poetry inspired by and inspiring the Taliban. Most Taliban fighters are Pashtuns, a people who cherish their poetic tradition, and poetry is used in battle.

remember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.

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Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the American Voice” in the face of protests by Sam Hamill and other invited guests against the coming “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq reminded us that poetry and poets still have the power to challenge the powerful. Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet’s relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation. In his elegant study, Metres examines the ways in which war resistance is registered not only in terms of its content but also at the level of the lyric. He proposes that protest poetry constitutes a subgenre that—by virtue of its preoccupation with politics, history, and trauma—probes the limits of American lyric poetry. Thus, war resistance poetry—and the role of what Shelley calls unacknowledged legislators—is a crucial, though largely unexamined, body of writing that stands at the center of dissident political movements.