Soft Corps
Title | Soft Corps PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Grossman |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2010-05-29 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0557423090 |
A book of poems centered around my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa. These poems deal with the volunteer experience, the experience of day-to-day village life, and the clash between the two. They are by turns, bawdy, sad, and as surreal as the Peace Corps experience itself. A number of these poems have been published in the following journals; pLopLop, INPOSSE, Five Fingers Review, Flying Island, Bathtub Gin. Others were published in Kilhohertz Country, a chapbook of poems published by GeekSpeak Unique Press--Dan Grossman
Soft Spots
Title | Soft Spots PDF eBook |
Author | Clint Van Winkle |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009-03-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 142996264X |
A powerful, haunting, provocative memoir of a Marine in Iraq—and his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a system trying to hide the damage done Marine Sergeant Clint Van Winkle flew to war on Valentine's Day 2003. His battalion was among the first wave of troops that crossed into Iraq, and his first combat experience was the battle of Nasiriyah, followed by patrols throughout the country, house to house searches, and operations in the dangerous Baghdad slums. But after two tours of duty, certain images would not leave his memory—a fragmented mental movie of shooting a little girl; of scavenging parts from a destroyed, blood-spattered tank; of obliterating several Iraqi men hidden behind an ancient wall; and of mistakenly stepping on a "soft spot," the remains of a Marine killed in combat. After his return home, Van Winkle sought help at a Veterans Administration facility, and so began a maddening journey through an indifferent system that promises to care for veterans, but in fact abandons many of them. From riveting scenes of combat violence, to the gallows humor of soldiers fighting a war that seems to make no sense, to moments of tenderness in a civilian life ravaged by flashbacks, rage, and doubt, Soft Spots reveals the mind of a soldier like no other recent memoir of the war that has consumed America.
The Art of Perfumery, and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants
Title | The Art of Perfumery, and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants PDF eBook |
Author | George William Septimus Piesse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Cosmetics |
ISBN |
Case Histories of Corps Breakwater and Jetty Structures
Title | Case Histories of Corps Breakwater and Jetty Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Robert R. Bottin (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Breakwaters |
ISBN |
Case Histories of Corps Breakwater and Jetty Structures
Title | Case Histories of Corps Breakwater and Jetty Structures PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Breakwaters |
ISBN |
Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English ... (Grand Dictionnaire Français-Anglais Et Anglais-Français)
Title | Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English ... (Grand Dictionnaire Français-Anglais Et Anglais-Français) PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fleming (Professor at the College Louis-le-Grand.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1256 |
Release | 1846 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Soft Exile
Title | The Soft Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Kiefer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
An idealistic, young American joins the Peace Corps after an aborted suicide attempt. He spends two years as a volunteer in the fabled lands of the Mongolian desert-steppe, searching for redemption and an alternative to modern American life.