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1 online resource |
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PART ONE: DEPARTURE; When the Men Go Off to War; The Hotel; Watching from the Runway ; The Good Wife Before Deployment; The Messengers; Lessons ; Patuxent River; Planning ; Reverie on Leave; The Beautiful Sadness; Hotel Cipriani ; Quantum Theory ; The Departure ; Standing on the AIrfield, Before War ; PART TWO: ABSENCE; Homecoming; Nights in the Gulf ; Harvard Reunion ; Almost ; Unknown Numbers ; To My Husband Flying Over Afghanistan ; The Funeral ; Love Letters; How Emirati Women Shop ; Thoughts of a High School Boyfriend ; The Prayer Flag; Prayers of an American Wife; On Sundays. |
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The Student Boudoir ; PART THREE: HOMECOMING ; Annapolis ; Atlantic City ; Kwansaba for a Wounded Warrior ; Key West ; Heroes; Outside the AIr Base; Accidents; Josephine ; The Crash ; Rock Climbing ; Elegy ; Ghosts; The Green Flash ; Birth ; Into the Fray ; The War Is Not Here ; Ordinary Evenings ; Flying the Persian Gulf ; Acknowledgments; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Collecting the nationally-recognized poems of Victoria Kelly, When the Men Go Off to War captures the hopes, anxieties, and intimacies of the military spouse during a time of war. Written over the course of her husband's deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan, these haunting poems span vast geographical distances and generations, moving between the literal and the fanciful to find community in the midst of isolation. Kelly blends lyric and narrative elements to evoke themes of loneliness and human fragility with keen insight. But ultimately, When the Men Go Off to War is a heartrending ode to endu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
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21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015025835
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelly, Victoria. When the men go off to war. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2015 9781612519043 (DLC) 2015015113 |
| ISBN |
9781612519050 (epub) |
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1612519059 |
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9781612519050 (mobi) |
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9781612519050 (epdf) |
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9781612519043 (alkaline paper) |
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