Medic Against Bomb
A Doctor’s Poetry of War
by Frederick Foote
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Pub Date Oct 15 2014 | Archive Date Oct 11 2014
Grayson Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
Winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, this book features poems by Frederick Foote, a retired U.S. Navy physician the director of the Poetry Project at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Martha Silano, who selected Medic Against Bomb for the prize, described the work well: “Refreshing, downright bracing, Foote reaffirms that war is anything but generic… these poems restore humanity to both enemy and combatant, leaving the reader with a fuller, clearer sense of the ongoing Iraqi conflict.”
Many of the poems developed from the author’s experiences on the hospital ship COMFORT, where military medical personnel cared for mostly Iraqi patients Medevac’d to the ship. Other poems emerged from the experience of caring for sick and wounded American servicemen and women, and for their families.
Advance Praise
There is a clear voice of compassion undergirding the poetry in Frederick Foote's Medic Against Bomb. The poems are painful reflections on the residual traumas of war… These are poems of witness and caring.
— James Ragan, Emerson Poetry Prize winner, author of The World Shouldering I
In verse as candid, often as ruthless, as a lethal wound – but always rife with compassion and remorse – he recounts not just the human, but the spiritual, cost of war. These are tough poems, yet imbued with a beauty borne of truth that one can’t turn away from. ..These poems are crucial. This volume is a Requiem.
—Joseph Bathanti, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, author of Restoring Sacred Art
Fred Foote’s war poetry deepens and extends the mediations on war…He pulls us down into terror and pain, fear and anger, laughter and love with a restive intelligence, kneading ideas and language into aesthetic discernments that we cannot ignore. Go, but hold on. You're in for a wild ride.
—Ron Capps, Lt. Col., USA, Ret., founder of the Veterans Writing Project, author of Seriously Not All Right
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780991386116 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
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