Focus: Soldier Writing — Fall 2022

Focus: Soldier Writing

Volume 43, Number 3
Fall 2022

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From the Editor

The Wild Wild West by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Soldier Writing

The Challengers by M.C. Armstrong

HED: Afghanistan, Changing Room of Empires by Adrian Bonenberger

Caleb S. Cage reviews Empire City: A Novel by Matt Gallagher

MaxieJane Frazier reviews Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough

Colin Cutler reviews Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Sadaawi, trans. Jonathan Wright

Collin Halloran reviews Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor’s Guide to Writing about Trauma by David Chrisinger

Bettina Hindes reviews Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Rape, Rage, and War by Ryan Leigh Dostie

The Forward Operating Base as Heterotopia by Peter Molin

Amalie Flynn reviews Kill Class by Nomi Stone

In Search of the Twenty-First Century’s “Great American Graphic War Novel” by Randy Brown

Tracy Crow reviews Mothers Over Nangarhar by Pamela Hart

There Is Nothing Strange in This at All by Brian Turner

Interventions

Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Christopher Sorrentino

Lost and Found

Announcing Something New: ABR’s “Lost and Found” Series by Anthony Madrid

Fiction

Erin H. Davis reviews The History of America in My Lifetime by Brooks Steritt

Joe Sacksteder reviews A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet

Spencer Harrison reviews How the Quiet Breathes by John Michael Flynn

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Responsible Adults by Patricia Ann McNair

Phill Provance reviews Silverfish by Rone Shavers

Spencer Harrison reviews One of Us: Stories by Scott Nadelson

Em Williamson reviews How Not to Drown by Jaimee Wriston 

Matthew Kirkpatrick reviews Interim by Matt Roberson

Richard Squires reviews The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole

E-Feature

Black Herman and the Rest of Us by E. Ethelbert Miller

Memoir

Ilka Scobie reviews Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment by John Giorno

Richard Levine reviews The Best of Medic in the Green Time: Writings from the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath by Marc Levy

Biography

Patricia Laurence reviews The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson

Robert Higney reviews Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life by Patricia Laurence

Poetry

Jerry Harp reviews Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney

Kit Robinson reviews Digigram by Barbara Henning

Hilary Sideris reviews Outside from the Inside by Anne Whitehouse

Phill Provance reviews The Ministry of Flowers by Andrea Witzke Slot

Jane Rosenberg Laforge reviews Stardust Media by Christina Pugh

Alicia Ostriker reviews Foreign Bodies by Kimiko Hahn

Jeff Wright reviews Typescenes by Rodney A. Brown

Daniel Mendoza reviews (Dis)placement by Esteban Rodriguez

Siobhán Scarry reviews  NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) by Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang

Allan Graubard reviews The Translator of Desires: Poems by Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, trans. Michael Sells

Zach Peckham reviews Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

Art

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Poetics of Still Life: A Collage by Robert Vas Dias

Printers and Poets

O, O, O by Charles Alexander

From our Own

Matthew Roberson reviews Yet to Come by Cris Mazza

Scenes

Desert Palm Press: An Interview with R. Lee Fitzsimmons

Poetics to Come

Apotheosis or Apophrades: Toward a Poetics of Life and Death in Late Stevens by Daniel T. O’Hara

The Departed

Leaving Archer City: In Memoriam Larry McMurtry by Stephen G. Kellman