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According to most
Definitions, I have never
been at war.

According to mine,
most of my life
spent there.


This collection was complicated and challenging. Solmaz Sharif chooses to use words from the Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, printing them in caps so readers can easily spot them in the poems. It's an effective and jarring method of highlighting the ways in which words can have different meanings in different contexts.