{"product_id":"9780983274742","title":"Love Notes From A Soldier's Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eCraig Podmore\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and director from Manchester, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eI am a Gun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Abattoir Heavens and The Holy Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in various journals and e-zines including \u003ci\u003eGloom Cupboard, The Plebian Rag, The Scottish Poetry Review, Epic Rites, Ditch, Poetry, Danse Macabre, Calliope Nerve, Horror, Sleaze, Trash, Sein Und Worden, Sex and Murder Magazine, Gutter Eloquence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFashion for Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003eReviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are like Genet's red rose of monstrous size and beauty discovered in the heart of the executed murderer. Given the name of the press, one might note that these poems embody poiesis as the word is explicated in e.g. Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e, they do not thematize Being explicitly, but they disclose, they reveal the death camp logistics that has replaced the primitive \u003ci\u003eMitsein\u003c\/i\u003e of the squaddy. Get this book; these poems need to be read. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- David McLean\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCadaver's Dance\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Hellbound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHad Rilke made it to The Front Line he may very well have compiled a series of poems such as Craig Podmore offers us in his harrowing yet tender collection,\u003ci\u003e Love Notes from a Soldier's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. Podmore is no stranger to the themes of love, death, war (he does not tackle the minor issues), and here we have the double spectres of death and absent love - the ones that hollow us out yet make us feel desperately alive - set against the agony and futility of war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- Gillian Prew\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDisconnections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NeoPoiesis Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029419573488,"sku":"9780983274742","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983274742_p0.jpg?v=1763885898","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983274742","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}