TY - BOOK ID - 134505967 TI - My American night PY - 2018 SN - 0820352063 9780820352060 9780820352053 0820352055 PB - Athens, Georgia DB - UniCat KW - American Literature KW - American literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134505967 AB - This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives. One is the self of the citizen-soldier, and the other is the self of the husband and father. His poems reveal the brutal ways in which these selves collide and bleed into one another. ER -