Songs of Iraq is an extremely powerful and graphic collection of narrative poetry that tells you exactly what it was like to be in Iraq during the worst of the insurgency war. It is spare and breathless reading, beginning when a young soldier steps into theater and ending when he catches the Freedom Bird home and -- just like that -- the combat tour is ended. You will know what it is like to curl up on the floor of a concrete bunker as mortar rounds walk closer, to fight in a God awful, unbelievably hot place against an invisible enemy, to push through the X in an ambush of your convoy, to be...