According to the book description of Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry
of War, it is "Winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, and
Finalist in the 2014 USA Best Book Awards for Poetry, this book features poems
by Frederick Foote, a retired U.S. Navy physician and the director of the Poetry
Project at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Martha Silano, who
selected Medic Against Bomb for the prize, described the work well. Refreshing,
downright bracing, Foote reaffirms that war is anything but generic... these
poems restore humanity to both enemy and combatant, leaving the reader with a
fuller, clearer sense of the ongoing Iraqi conflict.
Many of the poems developed from experiences on the hospital ship COMFORT, where
military medical personnel cared for mostly Iraqi patients. Other poems emerged
from the experience of caring for sick and wounded American servicemen and
women, and for their families."
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