Camouflage for the Neighborhood
Utterly unlike any book of poetry or pose poetry you'll read in this or any other year, Camouflage for the Neighborhood has the sharp beauty of a hand-made Clovis-point flint tool, and cuts as deeply into one of the central issues of our age: the home-made, always personal violence we do to one another on this earth, and the interconnection of lives in which it takes place. --Jane HirshfieldIn Camouflage for the Neighborhood, Delany-Ullman meditates on the never-ending home front of war. It is an internalized landscape that would otherwise drift into the erasure of history, were it not for Delany-Ullman's vigilant witness. For years now, I've advocated for writers to focus on war and the long shadows it casts here at home. It's exciting to see Delany-Ullman working within this tradition, layering this meditation with the various wars and aspects of conflict that make up a large portion of contemporary American life. --Brian TurnerWith remarkable acuity, Lorene Delany-Ullman digs through the mythic debris of America's recent wars, collecting mementoes of the savagery and setting them against the tender trappings of the suburbs. It's a literary rendition of James Rosenquist's F-111: horrifying in its juxtapositions, beautiful and deeply unsettling; a dark lullaby set to sweet music. --David J. Morris, author of Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War