Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War

Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor's Poetry of War by Frederick Foote. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780991386116.

Winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Poetry Prize. 2015 Gold Medal for Poetry, Military Writers Society of America. Finalist in the 2014 USA Best Book Awards for Poetry. This book features poems by Frederick Foote, a retired U.S. Navy physician and the director of the Poetry Project at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Martha Silano, who selected Medic Against Bomb for the prize, described the work well. Refreshing, downright bracing, Foote reaffirms that war is anything but generic... these poems restore humanity to both enemy and combatant, leaving the reader with a fuller, clearer sense of the ongoing Iraqi conflict. Many of the poems developed from experiences on the hospital ship COMFORT, where military medical personnel cared for mostly Iraqi patients. Other poems emerged from the experience of caring for sick and wounded American servicemen and women, and for their families.