Synopsis "Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars"
In a quietly epic narrative-lashed-together from the author's life-experiences as husband and father, literary scholar, and U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence officer-Liam Corley's debut collection of poetry, Unwound: Poems from Enduring Wars, navigates with readers previously unseen frontiers in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). With care and precision, Corley's poems probe the dark, interior corners of American heroic ideals, marriage, family, and homecoming. In the collection's titular poem, for example, he delivers "a poem for the other soldiers / citizens who never fired back [...]" He writes: "[...] I see you with a yellow ribbon woundtight around your chest, looking downwhen asked about the war [...]" For veterans, family members, and other citizens living in troubled times, Corley's collection provides a beacon of clear-eyed reflection, assessment, and hopes for the future. However we identify-whether wounded or unwounded-this is war poetry for the rest of us.
