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Service: Poems

Service: Poems

Lack, Bruce
Fink, Robert A.

Paperback

Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0896729206
ISBN13: 9780896729209
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Mar 15 2015
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truth--complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossible--about the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack's forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack's poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and the residual anger that may never leave the generation of veterans of the War on Terror. Written in the voice of the Marine but directed toward and accessible to the civilian, Service is a book that seeks to close the communication gap between the two.

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