Tongue of War : From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki
By Tony BarnstonePoetry. 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 prize (And it is a book rather than simply a collection). Barnstone writes that he intends TONGUE OF WAR as a love letter to the World War II generation. But he explains, I see the sequence as a history in verse in which I allow the readers to inhabit multiple and warring perspectives on the War in the Pacific, including the Pearl Harbor attack, Hiroshima, and the conflict in between. Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler writes that Barnstone has revealed humankind's capacity both for evil and for redemption with a power that few writers have ever achieved.
Book details
- Paperback
- 125 pages
- English
- 1886157715
- 9781886157712
About Tony Barnstone
tony barnstone is the albert upton professor of english at whittier college and has a masters in english and creative writing and ph.d. in english literatu Read More about Tony Barnstone
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