Liam Corley

UNWOUND:

POEMS FROM ENDURING WAR

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A quietly epic narrative, Liam Corley’s debut collection navigates previously unseen frontiers in 21st century soldier poetry.

 

With care and precision, these poems probe the dark, interior corners of American heroic ideals, marriage, family, and homecoming. In the collection’s titular work, he delivers “a poem for the other soldiers / citizens who never fired back [...]”

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“[...] I see you with a yellow-ribbon wound

tight around your chest, looking down

when asked about the war [...]”

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For veterans, family members, and other citizens living in troubled times, this collection provides a beacon of clear-eyed reflection, assessment, and hopes for the future.

 

However we identify—whether wounded or unwounded—this is war poetry for the rest of us. Order now from your local independent bookstore or mine: Cellar Door Books.