Poetry. 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 is a general suspicion that al-Qa'eda is behind the crash of an American Airlines flight in Queens and Richard Reed's (a.k.a. the "Shoe Bomber") attempt to blow up another, from Paris to Miami, and the fact that Osama bin Laden still can't be found makes this paranoia all the more credible. 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. Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.

Author City: St. Louis, MO USA

Louis Daniel Brodsky is the author of seventy-four volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by Éditions Gallimard) and twenty-four volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and eight books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, Faulkner Journal, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.