Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Beginning on January 21, 2002, and concluding on April 18, 2002, SHADOW WAR, VOLUME THREE resumes Louis Daniel Brodsky's chronicle of America's war on terrorism. In forty-one poems, he records the aftershocks created by the September 11th devastations of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Brodsky follows President Bush's shift in emphasis, away from Afghanistan and toward the next theater of war: the "Axis of Evil" -Iran, North Korea, and especially, Iraq, while our leaders hope to initiate a "regime change" within a short time. Yet, the focus remains in the Mideast, on the escalating attacks and retaliations raging between Palestinians and Israelis--acts only fueling the Muslim world's hatred of the U.S. Many of the poems depict the frequent suicide bombings and their bloody aftermaths, as the battle against terrorism now seems destined towards indeterminacy. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.
