Black Snowflakes Smothering A Torch

How to Talk to Your Veteran - A Primer

Ryan Stovall

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Woodhall Press
07 February 2023

Coping with illness

A primer serving to facilitate dialogue between those who have experienced the crushing arms of war and those who have not, at its foundation Black Snowflakes Smothering a Torch presupposes that many issues veterans face when reintegrating come not from the veteran's traumas but from the hypocrisies inherent to American civilian culture itself. As such Black Snowflakes represents an invaluable starting point, one that will serve as both a reference for civilians seeking to understand and as a voice for veterans hoping to explain.

By: Ryan Stovall
Imprint: Woodhall Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 163g
ISBN: 9781954907270
ISBN 10: 1954907273
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 07 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TOC:Zen? 3Sans Shield 4American Weddings 5The Firing Line 6Apoca Lips 7One Hard Frost 8We Return 10Manhattan 36I Helped 37Barracks Living 38The Embassy Voyeur 39 Tripped Up By Mefloquine 41You Will Lie Still 43But By The Grace of Poor Weapons Maintenance 45On A Fine-Tipped Point 46The Old Man 48The Eternal Return of Willy Pete 49Army Brat 50 Desert Rain 51Death On An ODA 52The Lake The Lillies and The Mud 54Pater Familias 57No Rolling, Shrink 58 Two, Or More 60Living 61Winning 63First Incision 66Bullet 68

Ryan Stovall is a former adventurer, world traveler, and Green Beret twice decorated for valor and awarded two Purple Hearts. Since returning from Pakistan in 2016 he has found writing to be a therapeutic outlet for coping with PTSD. His poetry won the 2018 Wright Award from Line of Advance and has appeared in Rosebud, The Cape Rock, Here Comes Everyone, and other journals and anthologies

Reviews for Black Snowflakes Smothering A Torch: How to Talk to Your Veteran - A Primer

""Beautiful, brutal, and moving, Ryan Stovall's Black Snowflakes is critical reading from a perspective that is almost never articulated with such astonishing raw honesty."" -- Phil Klay, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment ""Ryan Stovall's debut collection is both confession and accusation. Joke and sometimes bitter punch line. While the poems set out to educate the lay reader on how to talk to their veteran, they also service cathartic self-excavation."" --Graham Barnhart, author of The War Makes Everyone Lonely ""To raise the imaginative stakes so that they pierce the rhetorical stakes in America's recent, literally far-fetched wars takes an emotional determination that if not off-the-charts is pushing very, very hard..."" --Baron Wormser, author of Tom o' Vietnam