Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1888553251 ISBN 13 : 9781888553253

Editeur : Kore Press, 2008

Synopsis

"Powder" brings us poetry and personal essays from nineteen women who have served in all branches of the United States military. Contributors to "Powder" have seen conflicts from Somalia to Vietnam to Desert Shield. Many are book authors and winners of writing awards and fellowships; several hold MFAs from some of the country's finest programs. The essays and poems here are inspired by an attempted rape by a Navy SEAL; an album of photos of the enemy dead; heat exhaustion in Mosul; a first jump from an airplane; fending off advances from Iraqi men; interrogating suspected terrorists; the contemplation of suicide; and, a poignant connection with women and children in Bosnia. Their writing exposes the frontline intersection of women and soldiering, describing from a steely-eyed female perspective the horror, the humor, the cultural clashes, and the fear.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Bowden is an editor, poet and award-winning designer. As Publisher of Kore Press, she has worked on numerous contemporary writing projects and curated lectures, readings, workshops, panels and site-specific, improvisational writing collaborations. Lisa studied at the University of Arizona, Richmond International College, London, and The Visual Studies Workshop. She edited the audio volume Autumnal: A Collection of Contemporary Elegies (Kore Press, 2007). Shannon Cain is the Fiction Editor of Kore Press. She has received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her short stories have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona and the Gotham Writers Workshop. Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of four novels and five books of nonfiction, many of which concern social justice and women. Her writings on women soldiers won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008, and her book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq will be published by Beacon Press in the spring of 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kore Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1888553251
• ISBN 13: 9781888553253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Bowden Lisa, Cain Shannon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible