Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Powers, Kevin

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316401081)

Vendor: Kevin Powers
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Format: Hardcover
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Powers, Kevin

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

$23.00
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Powers, Kevin

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

$23.00
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.

National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown in the dry Iraq heat; writing a love letter; listening to a mother recount her dreams.

Written with evocative language and discernment, Powers's poetry strives to make sense of the war and its echoes through human experience. Just as The Yellow Birds was hailed as the "first literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war," this collection will make its mark as a powerful, enduring work (Los Angeles Times).

Author: Kevin Powers
ISBN-10: 0316401080
ISBN-13: 9780316401081
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.76w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 43
Library Journal 04/01/2014 pg. 95
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2014
Shelf Awareness 04/08/2014
Publishers Weekly 04/28/2014
By Kevin Powers
By Kevin Powers
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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, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. 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.

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