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Battle dress : poems
- Title
- Battle dress : poems / Karen Skolfield.
- Author
- Skolfield, Karen
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-5587 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 82 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In her prize-winning collection, U.S. Army veteran Karen Skolfield explores the narratives of a young soldier, her older counterpart, and her fellow soldiers, offering a rare glimpse of a female soldier's training and mental conditioning in a poetic voice that is at once accessible and otherworldly, gutsy and insightful."--
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards (note)
- "Winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize as Selected by Rosanna Warren"--Cover.
- Contents
- Enlist: origin < German, to court, to woo -- One. On Veterans Day, My Daughter Wishes Me Happy Veterinarians Day -- Double Arm Transplant -- Grenade: Origin < OFr. pomme-grenate -- The Throwing Gap -- Private, PV2, Private First Class -- Soldier Rendered as All Five Types of Sand Dunes -- Army SMART Book Section 1-8: "The origin of the hand salute is uncertain" -- Combined Plow and Gun Patent, 1862 -- "The Great Sacrifice of the Romans on Undertaking a War" -- Anticipate Gunshots in the Second Half of the Play -- Two. Rifle: verb, noun -- Army SMART Book: "Small-arms fire may sound like mosquitoes" -- Saltpeter -- Soldiers' F̀un' Photo with Flag-Draped Coffin Sparks Outrage -- Classic Green Army Figures Give Up Guns for Yoga -- The Sentry Responds -- Army SMART Book: Identification Tags, with Silencers -- CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assaults, Reprisals in the Military (2016) -- Why I Never Wrote About the Army -- Due to Historical Accuracy, Hazards Are Present -- Concertina Wire: Origin < from concert -- We Invaded Two Weeks Later -- Three. War: Origin < Old German, to confuse -- Poem with the Moment the Infantry Unit Is Given Clearance to Shoot Children -- Chevron: Origin < rafter, also goat -- Manassas -- Army SMART Book: Inspirational Quotes (I) -- Army SMART Book: Inspirational Quotes (II) -- Bayonet: Origin < from Bayonne, France -- Third Platoon Learns Cover & Concealment -- Ode to Meals, Ready to Eat -- Army SMART Book: M18A1 Claymore Mine -- Wyoming Field Tactics -- Four. Nurse Voted Best in SAC -- Most Lauded Advances in Medical Technology from the Global War on Terror -- CNN Report: Symptoms of PTSD Mimic Lyme Disease -- Details Emerge of Bowe Bergdahl Captivity -- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles -- Sergeant: Origin < one who serves -- Rescued Parrots Used in PTSD Therapy -- Nocturne with Tracers -- Company B Graduation Booklet: PV2 Skolfield -- Army SMART Book: This Page Left Blank Intentionally -- Discharge: Origin < Latin, to run away -- Civil War Reenactment, Look Park, Massachusetts -- Sailor's Creek Battlefield.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5587
- ISBN
- 9781324003014
- 1324003014
- LCCN
- 2019006960
- OCLC
- 1053998100
- Author
- Skolfield, Karen, author.
- Title
- Battle dress : poems / Karen Skolfield.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards
- "Winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize as Selected by Rosanna Warren"--Cover.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5587