IRAQ-ISTAN

This volume of poems traces the process that the now-existing American G.I. goes through: from being an innocent boot-camp inductee to being an experienced overseas combatant. Many of these returning soldiers, whether they are physically and mentally intact or not, find that they have other wars to fight at home: either external wars with their own government or internal wars within their own lives. In this volume, the heroic soldiers who have fought, and those who are still fighting in the Middle East know that "war is hell"; and so should the rest of us.