Full name: The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War

Author: Frances Richey Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780670019618 0670019615

A "heart-rending"(Anna Quindlen, Newsweek) memoir-in-verse that speaks to a mother's love for her son When Frances Richey's only child, Ben, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Green Beret, went on the first of his two deployments to Iraq, she began to write the twenty-eight unflinching poems that make up The Warrior. This urgent and intensely personal collection describes the world of those who wait while their loved ones are in combat or perilous situations; it is universal in its expression of the longing, anguish, love, and hope that constitute close relationships. Similar books: The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell In My Head by J. M. Storm I Heard God Laughing by Hafiz Devotions by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Counting Descent by Clint Smith Dead Man's Float by Jim Harrison Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson Without by Donald Hall Winter Morning Walks by Ted Kooser Alma, or The Dead Women by Alice Notley Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay Gabriel by Edward Hirsch