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Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War
Paperback
Series: Male Friendship Short Stories
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2023
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War is a stark and visionary collection of poems drawn from the landscapes of battle, memory, and myth. In these pages, war is not merely an event but a condition of the human soul-echoing through rivers, tents, animals, saints, and ancient heroes.
Michael M. Nikoletseas fuses modern war imagery with classical and biblical resonance, moving effortlessly from battlefield tents to Achilles, from drowned soldiers to angels and saints. His poems are spare, musical, and hallucinatory, shaped by blood, prayer, and the wind over forgotten camps. The language is both intimate and monumental, confronting death without sentimentality and heroism without illusion.
The collection is accompanied by haunting, creatively edited historical photographs from the U.S. Library of Congress, forming a visual counterpoint to the poems and reinforcing the sense of distance, loss, and repetition across wars and centuries.
This second edition revises and expands the original work, offering a refined and cohesive sequence of poems that speak to:
the endurance of warriors and civilians
the ancient myths that still govern modern violence
the tension between faith, sacrifice, and survival
the fragile beauty found in devastation
Far Pitched Tents will appeal to readers of war poetry, classical allusion, and philosophical verse-those who admire poets such as Seferis, Elytis, and Trakl, as well as readers drawn to meditative, imagistic writing that confronts history and mortality.
This is not a book about one war.
It is a book about war as humanity's oldest language.
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