Poetry. Louis Daniel Brodsky's SHADOW WAR, VOLUME FIVE begins on June 17, 2002 and concludes with an epilogue written the day after the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thus bringing the series to closure. The initial focus of this book is on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as President Bush's diplomatic pressure on both sides to find a solution. Gradually, the administration's call for war against Iraq grows louder. Several poems deal with Americans' paranoia about terrorism in their homeland, especially around Independence Day and Labor Day. The final poems concentrate on how America honors those who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, providing a poignant and sober account of the events surrounding September 11, 2002. The epilogue looks forward to a time "Untormented by the shadow of war, born of hope, peace." Brodsky is the author of fifty-one volumes of poetry and twenty-two volumes of prose.

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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.