The Warfare Makes Everybody Lonely (Phoenix Poets)

In his first assortment of poems, lots of which have been written throughout his years as a US Military Particular Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of reminiscence, trauma, and isolation. Starting from standard lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and expressionist varieties, the poems right here show a wierd, quiet energy as Barnhart engages within the pursuit and recognition of marvel, even whereas involved with whether or not it’s proper to take action within the fraught house of the conflict zone. We observe the speaker as he treads the road between responsibility and the horrors of conflict, honor and compassion for the victims of violence, and the wrestle to return to the every day lifetime of household and society after years of trauma.

            Evoking the landscapes and environment of conflict, in addition to its results on each US army service members and civilians in war-stricken nations,
The Warfare Makes Everybody Lonely is a difficult, nuanced have a look at the methods American violence is exported, enacted, and obscured by a author poised to take his place within the lengthy custom of warrior-poets.