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Service
Bruce Lack
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Description for Service
Paperback. Series: Walt McDonald First-Book. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truth—complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossible—about the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack’s forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement.
Lack’s poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and ... Read more
What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truth—complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossible—about the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack’s forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement.
Lack’s poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Walt McDonald First-book Series
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896729209
SKU
V9780896729209
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Ref
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About Bruce Lack
Bruce Lack served honourably in the United States Marine Corps from 2003–2007, spending twenty-one months in Fallujah, Iraq. He is a recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writer’s Program at the University of Michigan, USA. He lives in Portage, Michigan, USA, with his wife and son.
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