Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers
Kevin Powersis an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 July 1980
CountryUnited States of America
doe remember depends
But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.
pain details different
All pain is the same. Only the details are different.
risk world drowning
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
dream war goes-on
...the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
war writing personal-opinions
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,
wish exhaling next
Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.
talking littles never-quit
It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn’t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.
writing differences importance
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
writing stories writing-poems
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
writing
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
war yellow bird
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
boundaries prose
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
blessing matter able
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.
uncles military father
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.