Slow War: Volume 40

by Benjamin Hertwig

Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Kevin Powers's "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting." A century after the First World War, Hertwig presents both the personal cost of war in poems such as "Somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan" and "Food Habits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773551425
• ISBN13: 9780773551428
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.5"