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
prayer spring war
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.
facts details world
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.
giving-up fighting looks
I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.
life stars liars
I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.
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.