War Reporter
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Paul Watson won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 photograph of a dead American being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu; he has since reported from the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan. Deriving from correspondence between poet and war reporter, and their eventual meeting on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, these poems bear unsparing witness to both private trauma and the incalculable danger inflicted by contemporary warfare.
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This is a collection of poetry unlike anything I've read before although the work that comes closest is O'Brien's own play, The Body of an American. Both works are about the war reporter Paul Watson who won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photograph of the desecration of the body of an American soldier.
For my full review, see Review of War Reporter by Dan O'Brien
