A Soldiers Arabic ; I; The Baghdad Zoo ; Hwy 1; In the Leupold Scope ; The Al Harishma Weapons Market ; What Every Soldier Should Know ; The Hurt Locker; Observations Post 471; Here, Bullet; Body Bags; AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem) ; Two Stories Down ; Ashbah ; Into the Elephant Grass; Eulogy ; II; Kirkuk Oilfield, 1927 ; Trowel ; Where the Telemetries End ; Autopsy ; Repatriation Day ; Najaf, 1820 ; For Vultures: A Dystopia ; 16 Iraqi Policeman ; Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Barefoot) ; Katyusha Rockets; R and R; Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Bosch) ; How Bright It Is; III.
Alhazen of BasraEasel ; Observation Post 4798; 2000 lbs. ; Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Turner) ; Curfew ; IV; Mihrab; Milh; Gilgamesh, in Fossil Relief; Tigris River Blues ; Ferris Wheel ; Sadiq; Jameel ; Last Night's Dream ; Cole's Guitar ; 9-Line Medevac ; Night in Blue ; Caravan ; To Sand ; Notes.
Summary
A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award.