Paul David Adkins is a veteran and poet who knows a war zone’s brutality, beauty, humanity, and odd moments of levity. Adkins’ straightforward language serves to disarm before the gut punch. This book anthology includes Flying Over Baghdad With Sylvia Plath and Operational Terms and Graphics.
Read MoreThe struggles, the slaughter, the fear, the boredom, the hatred, and the torching that war lays upon the human spirit.
Read MoreWith clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail, Adkins adds an important voice capturing the mundanity, brutality, fear, boredom and banality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the importance of poetry is questioned, these poems provide an unequivocal answer.
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