Search -
Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Vol. 2
Shadow War A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond Vol 2 Author:Louis Daniel Brodsky Beginning less than two months after the attacks of 9/11, the forty-seven poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky's Shadow War, Volume Two depict the United States in crisis. There's a general suspicion that al-Qa'eda is behind the crash of an American Airlines flight in Queens and the attempt, by Richard Reed (a.k.a. the "Shoe Bomber" ), to blow u... more »p another, from Paris to Miami, and the fact that Osama bin Laden still can't be found makes this paranoia all the more credible. Despite the public's fear, coalition troops and the Northern Alliance have prevailed and virtually liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of the Taliban; Hamid Karzai has been appointed leader of the interim government. But these successes are marred by the increasing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, and America's alignment with Israel makes it a more provocative object of hatred in the Muslim world. Poems range from the case of traitor John Walker Lindh, an American Taliban fighter, to President Bush's choking on a pretzel, underscoring the nationwide feeling of precariousness. The volume ends ominously, with the discovery of a computer in Kabul, containing names of previously unknown al-Qa'eda operatives, suggesting that bin Laden isn't to be feared as much as is "An international network of independent cells...With the capacity to ravage our body politic."« less