Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Iraq war veteran's Poulin Prize-winning debut poetry collection explores war, masculinity, and return to civilian life. Introduction by Cornelius Eady.
Review Quotes:
"The Stick Soldiers reveal[s] Iraq in all its real and imagined dangers in a language that is somber, angry, deeply reflective, but also intensely, if not darkly humorous." The collection is an "approachable, necessary volume of poems about what it was like to prepare for war, serve in Iraq, and return to Ohio 'a body / much less / without the plated-vest, the ammo.'" -M.K. Sukach, War Literature & the Arts
"The Stick Soldiers is a journey you don't want to miss. Especially if you care about the soldiers our country sent to war and if you want to help them come home." -
Bookscover2cover "The Stick Soldiers deserves a wide audience. It has much to tell us about the cost of war on our veterans." -
Rain Taxi "As America's withdrawal from Iraq fades amidst more recent events, it becomes even more important to read books like
The Stick Soldiers to give voice and image to just what contemporary war constitutes for soldiers like Martin." --Mark Allen Jenkins,
American Microreviews and Interviews "Martin's book,
The Stick Soldiers, released in 2013, is filled with this kind of comédie noire, a knowing authority which seems deeply suspicious not only of its own attempts to reduce the war to language but also of the capacity of its civilian audience to comprehend this language."-
Los Angeles Review of Books
