Hugh Martin

In Country (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the second collection from Hugh Martin, whose Poulin Prize-winning first book (The Stick Soldiers, BOA, 2013), received press coverage in The New Yorker, the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, et al.

In Country continues and expands upon the narrative poems from Hugh's previous BOA title, pushing deeper into the day-to-day experiences of serving in the Iraq War. The collection also focuses heavily on the everyday interactions between US infantry soldiers and Iraqi civilians-a perspective often missing from Western coverage of the war in Iraq.

Hugh's work offers the unique perspective of a low-ranking Private First-Class (many other books written about the Iraq War have been written by higher-ranking officers) who had an opportunity to observe the war on the ground level. The result is a collection that bridges, complicates, challenges, and broadens Western civilians' conflicting and incomplete perceptions of the war.

There is a strong possibility for course adoption focusing on war memoirs, writing by veterans, and poetry inspired by U.S. policy in the Middle East. In Country is in dialogue with both 20th century war literature (poems in this collection reference the noted WWI poet Wilfred Owen) as well as more contemporary poets such as Solmaz Sharif (Look, Graywolf, 2016), Philip Metres (Sand Opera, Alice James Books, 2015), and Bruce Weigl.

Hugh has written for the New York Times "At War" blog and other military-focused journals, and he has a solid following among veterans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942683711
• Artikelnr.: 53287986

Autorenporträt

Hugh Martin grew up in northeast Ohio and served six years in the Army National Guard as an M1A1 Tanker. A veteran of the Iraq War, Hugh is the author of In Country (BOA Editions, 2018), The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize) and So, How Was the War (Kent State University Press, 2010). He carries degrees from Muskingum University and Arizona State University. A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship, and a Yaddo Residency, he was the inaugural winner of the Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Award for Veterans. His essays and poetry have appeared in PBS NewsHour, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Grantland, American Poetry Review, and The Kenyon Review. He was the 2014-15 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and is currently teaching at Ohio University where he's completing a Ph.D in creative writing.