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Cenotaph: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)
Brock Jones
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Description for Cenotaph: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)
Paperback. Num Pages: 65 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 10. Weight in Grams: 91.
Out of the contradiction, paradox, loss, and strange beauty of contem- porary warfare, Brock Jones brings us Cenotaph, a collection of poems that have as their genesis Jones’s deployments to Iraq in 2003 and 2005, when he was in the US Army.
These are war poems, but also love poems and hate poems, poems about dying and living, poems about hope and hopelessness. These are poems that beautifully reflect Jones’s resignation to and rejection of the impossibility of saying anything definitive or honest about war.
These are poems that strive to do what poet Bruce Weigl ... Read more
Out of the contradiction, paradox, loss, and strange beauty of contem- porary warfare, Brock Jones brings us Cenotaph, a collection of poems that have as their genesis Jones’s deployments to Iraq in 2003 and 2005, when he was in the US Army.
These are war poems, but also love poems and hate poems, poems about dying and living, poems about hope and hopelessness. These are poems that beautifully reflect Jones’s resignation to and rejection of the impossibility of saying anything definitive or honest about war.
These are poems that strive to do what poet Bruce Weigl ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
65
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557281722
SKU
V9781557281722
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About Brock Jones
Brock Joneswas born and raised in Utah. He served three tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan for the US Army. His poetry has appeared in theIowa Review, Lunch Ticket, Ninth Letter, Sugar House Review, and other journals. He is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.
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