War: Make That City Desolate by Janice D. Soderling (2020, 52 pages) is a themed collection on the broad topic of war and its devastation. The poems reflect on the ways war impacts the humans caught in its grip. Here is the bureaucrat, the soldier, the war bride, the child victim, the refugee, the profiteer, the living and the dead. Some are vers libre as in Pro Patria Redux … Uncle Samuel isn’t going. Uncle Samuel would like the glory, but he hedges. He deals in futures and private equity. And he figures, Why do we have all these young men if we aren’t going to use them? … Some are prose poems, some received forms as: The Grandeur That was Homs It’s the same old logical story, a war cry, then laurels and glory. A rising, a fall, then nothing at all but the ruins a posteriori. These poems are selected from several decades of publishing in international journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, The Literary Bohemian. Some are in print for the first time. (ISBN 978-91-986120-3-5 )