Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki

by Tony Barnstone and Cleo Qian

Poetry. This book won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by B. H. Fairchild, who writes in his foreword, "TONGUE OF WAR is one of the most distinctive manuscripts I have ever judged for a book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886157715
• ISBN13: 9781886157712
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A fine work that should not be ignored

The second world war brought much change for many Americans, be they soldier or on the home front. "Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki" is a collection of poems from Tony Barnstone discussing the many elements of World War II with much emotion and perspective. "Tongues of War" is a fine work that should not be ignored. "White Bones": Mother was burned into white bones/while praying at our Buddhist altar./I can't recall her face, but some/days at the painted wooden post/that marks her grave I pray to mother./The post is silent and I go/home, leaving her some pretty flowers./I was just five. I don't remember.