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Wife of a pilot who deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.
From inside flap:
"Collecting the nationally-recognized poems of Victoria Kelly, When the Men Go Off to War captures the hopes, anxieties, and intimacies of the military spouse during a time of war. Written over the course of her husband’s deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan, these haunting poems span vast geographical distances and generations, moving between the literal and the fanciful to find community in the midst of isolation. Kelly blends lyric and narrative elements to evoke themes of loneliness and human fragility with keen insight. But ultimately, When the Men Go Off to War is a heartrending ode to enduring romance and the reclamation of a marriage tested by loss and separation."

About the author
"A graduate of Harvard University, Trinity College Dublin, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, VICTORIA KELLY’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013 and renowned literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Hopkins Review."