The Stick Soldiers

Hugh Martin

The Stick Soldiers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
BOA Editions, Limited
Country
United States
Published
16 April 2013
Pages
88
ISBN
9781938160066

The Stick Soldiers

Hugh Martin

…thoughtful recollections, scary memories, articulate reflections, and the resolve of a man who has been there. -Publishers Weekly

At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college when his National Guard unit was activated for a deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant’s Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio.

Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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