My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.