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Zubayr, Iraq (Mar. 23, 2002) — Sgt. Jeff Seabaugh, a squad leader with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (15th MEU (SOC)), moves his Marines to their objective during a mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian L. Wickliffe. (RELEASED) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It was the embedded reporters who grabbed my attention during Operation Iraqi Freedom and its aftermath. Evan Wright’s Generation Kill, an insight into equipment shortages and poor leadership at every level was compelling but polemical, with former members of 1st Recon distancing themselves from his presentation of their officers in the DVD extras for HBO’s spinoff series, his angle was questionable. In David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers, the US military was presented sympathetically, as it mounted a futile struggle to improve sewerage for the inhabitants of the Baghdad suburb, Rustamiyah. No matter what your view of the conflict and its aftermath was, it became clear that Operation Iraqi F
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Intro: Words and War
Poetry Dispatch No. 311 | February 16, 2010
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Norbert Blei
Some of us with a literary bent, with a history and love of contemporary literature under our belts and in our hearts, still wait for news from the current war fronts, Iraq and Afghanistan, hoping to discover the truer tale, the latest chapter on man’s inhumanity to man in those two theaters of violence.
I’m not a great lover of war literature, though I respect and admire the best novels, poems, plays and essays that came out of prior confrontations, from WWI to Vietnam. We all have our favorites from this times and battlegrounds.
But it all seems so quiet out there since we set foot in Iraq. Where are the writers? Where’s ‘the’ or one of ‘the’ novels? Has no one but Robert Bly cried out to the nation as he did in August, 2002 with the poem, “Call and Answer” (which he was kind enough to allow Cross+Roads Press to reprint in its broadside series, “Broadside Beat #5, 2005) ?
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Or is the work being done—but just not receiving the attention it deserves? Which I suspect may be the case. Keep the voices down…bury them in the small presses, little magazines, street literature. But why? Nobody’s listening? Nobody cares? Publishers s