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In this collection of poems, Lisa Mullenneaux takes us into the tormented consciousness of wounded soldiers, war victims, and US veterans.
Keep Talking to Her, Private
A Collection of Poems by Lisa Mullenneaux
“In this time of ‘endless war,’ largely ignored by most of our country-people, this is a short but crucial collection. From the first poem, ‘Deep Inside,’ Mullenneaux takes us into the tormented consciousness of the wounded soldier, and in the second, the victim of war, ‘the Napalm Girl.’
A longer sequence is dedicated to US veterans who killed themselves. From a military family, Mullenneaux understands war and its devastation from the inside: her sympathy extends equally in all directions, from Charlotte Delbo to a child in Gaza. These heartbreaking poems are without sentimentality or political bent, just boundless compassion and empathy for all victims of all war, whether soldiers or civilians, without borders. Every poem is a knock-out.
Read it. Buy it. Send it to your members of Congress. Everyone should read this book.”
~Barbara Ungar, professor of English at the College of Saint Rose and author of Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life
Softcover, with 23 pages and a trim size of 5.5 by 8.5 inches. The book was published in 2017 by Post Traumatic Press. ISBN: 9780999436905.
About the Poet
Lisa Mullenneaux’s poems and essays appear in AGNI Online, Ploughshares, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the critical study “Naples’ Little Women: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante,” and has taught research writing for the University of Maryland’s Global Campus since 2015.
