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

Poetry. In the fifty poems of SHADOW WAR, VOLUME ONE, Louis Daniel Brodsky chronicles the events of September 11, 2001 and the seven and a half weeks that followed, proclaiming both rallying cries and protestations. Free of political agenda, Brodsky immerses us in a chaos of conflicting attitudes and emotions. While many of the poems express patriotic indignation toward America's enemies, some show anger with America itself--its complacency, materialism, and insularity. A number of poems also evoke genuine ecumenical sentiments, desiring for people of all faiths to unite, while others are cynical, irreverent, ironic, and absurd. We emerge from this diversity with a provocative and compelling portrait of perhaps the most confusing, yet reflective time America has ever experienced. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.