Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars
Liam Corley
(Author)
Description
In a quietly epic narrative-lashed-together from the author's life-experiences as husband and father, literary scholar, and U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer-Liam Corley's debut collection of poetry, Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars, navigates with readers previously unseen frontiers in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). With care and precision, Corley's poems probe the dark, interior corners of American heroic ideals, marriage, family, and homecoming. In the collection's titular poem, for example, he delivers "a poem for the other soldiers / citizens who never fired back [...]" He writes: "[...] I see you with a yellow ribbon woundtight around your chest, looking down
when asked about the war [...]" For veterans, family members, and other citizens living in troubled times, Corley's collection provides a beacon of clear-eyed reflection, assessment, and hopes for the future. However we identify-whether wounded or unwounded-this is war poetry for the rest of us.
Product Details
Price
$11.99
Publisher
Middle West Press LLC
Publish Date
August 07, 2023
Pages
106
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.25 inches | 0.37 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781953665188
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Liam Corley is an award-winning poet and scholar. Changelings Insurgence is his first work of fiction. He is a professor of American Literature at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work on literature and war has been published in War, Literature, & the Arts, College English, and the Journal of Veterans Studies and has been supported with a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Liam is the author of Bayard Taylor: Determined Dreamer of America's Rise, 1825-1878 (Bucknell University Press, 2014). A debut poetry collection, unwound, came out from Middle West Press in 2023. His poems can also be found in Strange Horizons, Chautauqua, First Things, Badlands, Inlandia, The Line Literary, O-Dark-Thirty, and Wrath-Bearing Tree. Since 2004, Liam has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has completed multiple deployments, including ones to Afghanistan and Iraq, and throughout the Pacific area of operations. He lives in Riverside, California, with his wife and four children.