Kevin Powers

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers poems capturing the life of a soldier, including waiting in the dusty Middle Eastern heat and writing a love letter back home.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 146mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780316401081
• ISBN-10: 0316401080
• Artikelnr.: 39339164

Autorenporträt

Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.