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Powder, November 2008
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Powder, November 2008
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Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq
Kunati Inc.
November 2008
On Sale: November 11, 2008
140 pages ISBN: 1888553251 EAN: 9781888553253 Paperback
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Fiction Poetry
POWDER brings us poetry and personal essays from 19 women
who have served in all branches of the United States
military. Contributors to Powder have seen conflicts from
Somalia to Vietnam to Desert Shield. Many are book authors
and winners of writing awards and fellowships; several hold
MFAs from some of the country's finest programs. The essays
and poems here are inspired by an attempted rape by a Navy
SEAL; an album of photos of the enemy dead; heat exhaustion
in Mosul; a first jump from an airplane; fending off
advances from Iraqi men; interrogating suspected
terrorists; the contemplation of suicide; and a poignant
connection with women and children in Bosnia. Their writing
exposes the frontline intersection of women and soldiering,
describing from a steely-eyed female perspective the
horror, the humor, the cultural clashes and the fear.
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