{"product_id":"service-poems-9780896729209","title":"Service: Poems","description":"What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truth--complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossible--about the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack's forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack's poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and the residual anger that may never leave the generation of veterans of the War on Terror. Written in the voice of the Marine but directed toward and accessible to the civilian, Service is a book that seeks to close the communication gap between the two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Lack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt McDonald First-Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.50w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780896729209","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43028629684361,"sku":"9780896729209","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1c85a6f6-9a13-4516-982a-07d6e188779d.jpg?v=1728366808","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/service-poems-9780896729209","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}