Bibliograph

My American night, poems

Type

Label

My American night, poems

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My American night

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

poems

Summary

This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives. One is the self of the citizen-soldier, and the other is the self of the husband and father. His poems reveal the brutal ways in which these selves collide and bleed into one another

Target audience

adult

Classification