"These poems, many written in forms such as the sonnet, are inspired by historical situations and accounts--letters, oral histories, news reports, etc.--of individuals from both sides of the Pacific theater of World War II, including the home fronts"--Provided by publisher. , a book of dramatic monologues set in the Pacific during the Second World War and Pulp Sonnets, a collection of poems based upon classic pulp fiction, comic books, and horror, film noir and sci-fi movies. Tongue of War won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008,

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at U.C. Berkeley