Definite Space Poems

Name: Definite Space Poems
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ISBN: 9780977945849

ISBN-10: 0977945847

ISBN-13: 9780977945849

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ann Iverson

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"While Ann Iverson makes direct references to contemporary political events, she mutes their potential polarizing effect by considering them within a non-politicized context: her life. Consequently, no matter one's position on our nation's response to September 11, to the war on terror, or the president, one can appreciate these poems."-Rachel Lintula Ann Iverson's second collection of poetry conveys the emotional journey of a son's first and second deployment to Baghdad, as well as the spiritual and physical adjustment to a move from the inner city to a country-like suburb. In spare, distinctive imagery, Iverson ponders the personal, familial, and social transitions brought about by life…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Tom Pollard is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in San Jose and a documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Life Network, Canadian Broadcasting System, and various PBS channels. His most recent book is Sex and Violence: The Hollywood Censorship Wars (Paradigm, 2010) and he has coauthored with Carl Boggs The Hollywood War Machine (Paradigm, 2007) and A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).






Twin Towers


When a Son Goes Off to War


Driving Through Louisiana, Christmas Day, 2002


What to Say


The Yellow Ribbon


Father of a Soldier


Three A.M. First Call from Baghdad


The Fourth of July, 2003


Aubade


Too Close to Home, July 5th


E-Mail


Keep the Boy Alive


Focus


The Deployment: Ill at Ease


Christmas Leave


Incarcerated, Saddam Hussein Writes Poetry and Gardens


Returning from NYC, November, 2001


Agenda of the Dead


Half Moon at Christmas, 2001


Homecoming


Post-Traumatic Stress


War


One Night Out of Many





Moving to the Country


He Saw the Owl


Her Job at Dusk While a Storm Threatens


Homesick


Politics in the Country


Homesick, Again


What Can Go Awry


Anniversary


Summer


Sometimes if She Enters


When You Sleep in November


First Lesson


Empty Nest


Even Though


Code in War Time


Rooster Pheasant


The New Garden


Genesis


Back to School





Summer's End


Forgoing


Falling, Rising, Sand


No Promises Here


Waiting for Winter


The Second Deployment


War Years are Like Animal Years


Status Quo


Peace


Amazing How All Days Can Fall Into One


Beside Himself


Again, the Yellow Ribbon


Before You Leave Again


The Old Black Lab


Existence


Prayer


God's Will


Of Loneliness and Snow


Leafless. Coyotes


Study: Shapes and Forms


Alone After Christmas


New Year's Day


Milestone


Sonnet for the Barren Birch


Together We Planted Grass


Count Down


Now When She Drives


War Prayer


The Gift


Acknowledgments


About the Author, Her Stepson, and the Cover Artist