Of Love and War: Poems

Of Love and War is divided into 4 parts: Fighting Dying Remembering and Living. Each part represents a small chapter to the overall story of the book. Of Love and War is a mix of Free Verse Prose and Narrative poetry that gives specific focus to the combat stresses PTSD boredom and losses associated with authors deployment to Iraq in 2005 as an infantry Marine. It also meshes this bold intense and sometimes unforgiving voice with that of a softer gentler and sometimes macho or alpha male tone about love and the failings of. With great insight into the mind of a warrior and the deteriorating affects that war has on the mind and body Of Love and War is a book just as much about life as it is about the struggles of war. Full of wit grit honesty and sacrifice Of Love and War brings a new fresh smack-you-right-in-the-face voice of a common man meant to experience extraordinary things.