It's tough, I think I don't love the format of just tons of disconnected poetry strung together like this. Certainly I'm not bringing back the warrior poet mantra over this book. I feel the poems never impacted me the way many memoirs of the same subject hitting on similar themes have.

The subject matter and writing are inoffensive. One could arguably say the same on the prose. It lacks punch or voidness or really anything standout. In the large field of poems written by soldiers since literacy began being a common trait for the common soldier this volume really doesn't trod any new ground or try anything new. It doesn't add.

That said, it's not bad (that's why it's a 2 not a 1 star), I simply didn't connect with it in any way. It's short so I don't discourage people from trying it out but I could have whipped through it in an afternoon and not for the pure enjoyment I was getting out of it. I get why someone might love it but not a single of the poems, hell not a single stanza, got copied down into my quotes notebook. If you want the written word to convey the soldiers experience there's just way better places to look.