$14.00
There are times when poetry shows its rare ability to tell the truth in a way that sinks into your guts. Something you thought you knew before reading these poems, after the poems you really KNOW. Linda Beeman‘s language offers a straight path to a thicket of emotions, and by the last poem in the book I understood that we are all part of the collateral damage. These poems are a gift to me, and have left me with more empathy for the men and women we’ve sent to do our work in Afghanistan.
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[5 of 5 Stars!]
Few poets have Linda Beeman’s courage. This new book brings us up close to soldiers, civilians and loved ones who suffer as a result of recent American wars and military interventions.
The poems are cut clean with grief, resonating in what Beeman describes as “one long ongoing chant/for redemption.” Truly, her chant is poignant.
–Frances McCue
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Here is a courageous book, one where men pray to rain, where men are executed in “retaliation for scorched words” that “are sacred.”
When the word “heat” becomes a moving elegy and “Traffic” a boy’s name–the reader realizes that poetry’s power, its impulse, is to name the world anew despite all the sorrows–or maybe because of them.
–Ilya Kaminsky
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Collateral Damage
by Linda Beeman
$14, paper
Linda Beeman is an award-winning poet living on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. She is the author of Wallace, Idaho – a chapbook celebrating the history of her gritty silver-mining hometown. Her poems have appeared in Windfall, Raven Chronicles and online at Adanna and the University of Chicago’s Euphony.
Selected poems from Collateral Damage won awards from Split This Rock and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.
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