These are texts that take us into lived experience and allow us to know an enemy that can never be fully defeated. War, violence, abuse and most recently pandemic have made so many of us tragically familiar with PTSD. Yet Bohm's poems are also strangely hopeful. Their ability to involve the reader and then release him or her lies in the poet's attention to detail, to inner meaning and overall significance.
These are texts that take us into lived experience and allow us to know an enemy that can never be fully defeated. War, violence, abuse and most recently pandemic have made so many of us tragically familiar with PTSD. Yet Bohm's poems are also strangely hopeful. Their ability to involve the reader and then release him or her lies in the poet's attention to detail, to inner meaning and overall significance.
Robert Bohm's Nightmares is his fourth poetry volume, along with two poetry chapbooks and a nonfiction work on the west's lingering colonial view of India. He was born in Queens, NY in 1943. As a draftee during Vietnam, he worked in an army hospital. Following his service, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass, Amherst, then taught for two years at Karnataka University in India and one year at Springfield College. Subsequently, he left academia and became a ghostwriter who specialized in authoring articles and reports on subjects related to the nation's ongoing debates over social-economic equity and military expansionism. Creative writing, however, remained his major commitment. His is married to Suman Kirloskar, a labor, women's and antiracism activist. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.
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