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La DoNa, La Llorona is a poetry book about alienation and inclusion. With imperviousness and ferocity, this famous Mexican ghost crisscrosses the northern border and makes both nations her own. La Llorona is not a sympathetic figure; she preys on children and drowns them in rivers. The stories highlight her pride, beauty, and vanity. In La DoNa, La Llorona, the ghost is a woman with a past, a story common to American mythology. She is Mexican, American, a woman unafraid, the most terrifying of specters. In a nation where immigrants face deportation, even death, La...

To students of military history, a good map tells contour, overlook, reverse slope, avenue of advance, impassible obstacle. Military symbols denote marches, routs, defenses, strongpoints. Yet, to the layman, the onlooker, the casual observer, they stand without value. They inherently cannot represent what is happening on the battlefield to the single-most important element: the combatant.

Operational Terms and Graphics divulges human struggles beneath the symbols and graphics: the struggles, the slaughter, the fear, the boredom, the hatred, and the torching that war lays to the human...

Poetry as hero, not heroic poetry. Just masterful verse which performs extraordinary work in extraordinary circumstances. No one has, likely, ever uttered the words, "Read Jennifer Kronovet's collection; it will save your life " That is, until today.

Because it has, for me. All the poets introduced here have literally plucked me from flames. I had to make sense of Afghanistan, Iraq, The Surge, our Senate's approval of The Surge, my family's struggles in my absence, and the moral decrepitude of the undertakings of conflict, these ones, and all the ones before.

Years ago, poet...

La DoNa, La Llorona is a poetry book about alienation and inclusion. With imperviousness and ferocity, this famous Mexican ghost crisscrosses the northern border and makes both nations her own. La Llorona is not a sympathetic figure; she preys on children and drowns them in rivers. The stories highlight her pride, beauty, and vanity. In La DoNa, La Llorona, the ghost is a woman with a past, a story common to American mythology. She is Mexican, American, a woman unafraid, the most terrifying of specters. In a nation where immigrants face deportation, even death, La...