{"id":10883,"date":"2017-12-04T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=10883"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:52:08","slug":"how-he-loved-them","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/how-he-loved-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How He Loved Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 98 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-09-9<\/p>\n

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How He Loved Them<\/em><\/h1>\n

Kevin Prufer<\/h2>\n

How He Loved Them <\/em>won the 2018 Julie Suk Award.<\/h5>\n
How He Loved Them <\/em>is a finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Poetry.<\/h5>\n
How He Loved Them<\/em> was a finalist for the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize.<\/h5>\n

Kevin Prufer\u2019s How He Loved Them<\/em> sets love in a fraught, paradoxical world where bombs explode, fields burn, and armies advance. With clear, compassionate eyes, Prufer finds powerful intimacy between fathers and sons, soldiers and civilians, the living and the (sometimes un)dead.<\/p>\n

“Love Poem” from How He Loved Them<\/em>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cold by the highway and I love your steel mills,
\nhow the smokestacks choke the sky with love,
\nhow they wrap their arms around me, oh, America, I love
\nyour lines of trucks\u2014they beat the pavement like hearts full of love
\nwhere we hold hands like lovers and stroll among airplanes,
\nwhere we linger by hangars, our bodies smoked with love,
\nthen I love you as the bomb loves its timer, as the helmet loves the head,
\nso when it finally snows, you\u2019re the obliterating shrapnel that I love,
\nyou\u2019re the falling burning leaves, the great flag on fire, shower of sparks,
\nyou\u2019re the green mist the planes emit over the sleeping city
\none night not long from now just before dawn\u2014a thin green ice
\nencasing the buildings, and, America, I\u2019m half drunk and improvising,
\nI\u2019ve walked your frozen highways in snowfall, in ashfall,
\nI\u2019ve got you inside me, I\u2019m breathing your tinted air.
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