The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses her new poetry collection, THE FISH & THE DOVE.
...moreMary-Kim Arnold discusses her new poetry collection, THE FISH & THE DOVE.
...moreSchultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.
...moreAs we sat around telling the funniest stories we could remember from our time in Iraq, I noticed that the easy cynicism of our twenties was gone, and so was the rigid hierarchy of the military.
...moreWhen you’re writing fiction, you can follow your own ignorance. You can write something and realize how flawed you are.
...moreBut those who subscribe to the Surge narrative have to work very hard to choose and order their supporting facts.
...moreEach character achieves independence in his own way, but independence winds up looking a lot like loneliness.
...more[I]f we don’t explore wartime trauma in literature, we will never understand war’s impact in personal or social terms; never understand the incredible variety of responses to trauma, with all its nuances and exceptions.
...moreThe notion that the truth about combat cannot be described in a book goes back to the American Civil War, at least.
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