Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems - Rilegato

Powers, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0316401080 ISBN 13: 9780316401081

Casa editrice: Little Brown & Co, 2014

Riassunto

An Iraq war veteran, National Book Award finalist and author of The Yellow Birds offers poems capturing the life of a soldier, including waiting in the dusty Middle Eastern heat and writing a love letter back home. 100,000 first printing.

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Praise for The Yellow Birds
"Extraordinary...A harrowing story about the friendship of two young men trying to stay alive on the battlefield...Brilliantly observed and deeply affecting." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Powers is a poet first, so The Yellow Birds is spare, incredibly precise, unimproveable."--Dave Eggers, Observer

"Kevin Powers has produced a masterpiece of war literature and a classic."--Hilary Mantel, London Times

"A powerful work of art....Put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien."--Anthony Swofford

L'autore

Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting is his first collection of poetry.

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• Editore: Little Brown & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0316401080
• ISBN 13: 9780316401081
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160