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Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780996931700
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 13 2015
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A Military Writers Society of America 2016 Gold Medal in Poetry winner! An overseas tour de force and a memoir-in-verse! An evergreen satire of the Forever War in Afghanistan and Iraq!
Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism-and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest-journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again.
The book includes haiku, sonnets, and less-traditional forms of poetry, intended to create moments of emphathy and conversation among military veterans and civilians.
Here's a taste:
THREE CUPS OF CHAI-KU
1.
I had hoped, I guess,
for something more like Starbucks,
not yellow water.
2.
We build our nations
one tea party at a time.
They serve, we protect.
3.
No one here can lead
this endless talk of action.
Que shura, shura.
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