What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in "Service" is truthcomplex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossibleabout the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack s forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack s poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the...