Phoenix Poets
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In his first collection of poems, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory, trauma, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and expressionist forms, the poems here display a strange, quiet power as Barnhart engages in the pursuit and recognition of wonder, even while concerned with whether it is right to do so in the fraught space of the war zone. We follow the speaker as he treads the line between duty and the horrors of war, honor and compassion for the victims of violence, and the struggle to return to the daily life of family and society after years of trauma.
            Evoking the landscapes and surroundings of war, as well as its effects on both US military service members and civilians in war-stricken countries, The War Makes Everyone Lonely is a challenging, nuanced look at the ways American violence is exported, enacted, and obscured by a writer poised to take his place in the long tradition of warrior-poets.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780226660639
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Acknowledgments
Belated Letter to My Grandmother
What Being in the Army Did
What’s It Like?
Call to Prayer
Aubade between Deployments
1900
Pissing in Irbil
The War Makes Everyone Lonely
Sewing
Goat in the Cleared Village
Notice and Focus Exercise
The Coffee Aisle
After Sterilizing the Canteens
My Pittsburgh
Telling You I Will Deploy Again
Days of 2009
Post 9/11 Gas Training (I)
How to Stay Awake on a Training Exercise
Survival and Evasion
Somnambulant
Breach
How to Stop the Bleeding
First Life
Medics Don’t Earn Killstreaks
Pashtu Refresher
Certificates of Training
Informant
Deserving (I)
Post 9/11 Gas Training (II)
Range Detail
Indiana-stan
Tinder Pic
Cultivating Mass
Downed Pilot
On the Evening Before My Departure
Pre-Deployment Chaplain’s Brief
The Road to Pol-e-Khomri
Tourists
Augury
0300
Blocking an Imagined War Movie
Medical Refresher
Failure Drills
A Fable
Shura
Days of Spring, 2016
Capabilities Brief
0500
Deserving (II)
How to Transition a Province
Self-Portrait with Wedding, Vineyard, and Gunshot
Unpracticed
Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing
...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Belated Letter to My Grandmother
  7. What Being in the Army Did
  8. What’s It Like?
  9. Call to Prayer
  10. Aubade between Deployments
  11. 1900
  12. Pissing in Irbil
  13. The War Makes Everyone Lonely
  14. Sewing
  15. Goat in the Cleared Village
  16. Notice and Focus Exercise
  17. The Coffee Aisle
  18. After Sterilizing the Canteens
  19. My Pittsburgh
  20. Telling You I Will Deploy Again
  21. Days of 2009
  22. Post 9/11 Gas Training (I)
  23. How to Stay Awake on a Training Exercise
  24. Survival and Evasion
  25. Somnambulant
  26. Breach
  27. How to Stop the Bleeding
  28. First Life
  29. Medics Don’t Earn Killstreaks
  30. Pashtu Refresher
  31. Certificates of Training
  32. Informant
  33. Deserving (I)
  34. Post 9/11 Gas Training (II)
  35. Range Detail
  36. Indiana-stan
  37. Tinder Pic
  38. Cultivating Mass
  39. Downed Pilot
  40. On the Evening Before My Departure
  41. Pre-Deployment Chaplain’s Brief
  42. The Road to Pol-e-Khomri
  43. Tourists
  44. Augury
  45. 0300
  46. Blocking an Imagined War Movie
  47. Medical Refresher
  48. Failure Drills
  49. A Fable
  50. Shura
  51. Days of Spring, 2016
  52. Capabilities Brief
  53. 0500
  54. Deserving (II)
  55. How to Transition a Province
  56. Self-Portrait with Wedding, Vineyard, and Gunshot
  57. Unpracticed
  58. Everything in Sunlight I Can’t Stop Seeing
  59. Notes