Poetry
Relative Calm
The Virginia quarterly review, Vol.85(3), pp.82-97
Virginia Quarterly Review
07/01/2009
Abstract
Merrill recalls kneeling in the dust on a dirt road behind a mosque with four Lebanese Army soldiers aiming their rifles. Among other things, he remembers the noon sun beat down on his bare back, arms, and legs, a short, rough-talking major having ordered to strip him to his underwear scrutinizing his passport as a journalist that lacked a press pass which made his presence in the war zone suspicious. Also, he describes Lebanon's worst crisis since the civil war which claimed 150,000 lives and might spark another conflagration.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Relative Calm
- Creators
- Christopher Merrill
- Resource Type
- Poetry
- Publication Details
- The Virginia quarterly review, Vol.85(3), pp.82-97
- ISSN
- 0042-675X
- eISSN
- 2154-6932
- Publisher
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- International Writing Program; International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398701902771
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