Using Poetry to Make Sense of War Trauma
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Posted 02.02.2012
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Huffington Post
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U.S. infantrymen have been given the idea that poetry isn't for tough guys. It's also our loss as soldiers because it has robbed many of us of the chance to grasp what it means to be so fiercely human that we are willing to kill each other and to die.