English Professor from Howard and Bridgewater State, non combatant, who says he has had many experience teaching war veterans and now writes about the process of transformation from civilian to combatant.

The poems in IRAQ-ISTAN seek to inform the non-military public about the life of the now-existing American G.I., the process of being transformed from an innocent inductee to being an experienced overseas combatant. For many of these soldiers, personal battles are not left on the sands in Iraq and Afghanistan. For many of them, when they return home, whether physically and mentally intact or not, they discover that there are other wars to be fought on the home-front. These wars range from external wars with their own government to internal wars within their own lives. In this volume of poems, our heroic soldiers who have been, and those who still are involved with the battles in the Middle East, know that ""war is hell."" And so should the rest of us.