Shadow War, Volume Two: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond

Poetry. Beginning less than two months after the attacks of 9/11, the forty-seven poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME TWO, depict the United States in crisis. There is a general suspicion that al-Qa'eda is behind the crash of an American Airlines flight in Queens and Richard Reed's (a.k.a. the "Shoe Bomber") attempt to blow up another, from Paris to Miami, and the fact that Osama bin Laden still can't be found makes this paranoia all the more credible. Poems range from the case of traitor John Walker Lindh, an American Taliban fighter, to President Bush's choking on a pretzel, underscoring the nationwide feeling of precariousness. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.