鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing a wave of literature about the wars,鈥� Nelson says of "Yellow Birds." This particular novel is what she calls a 鈥減oetic novel about two soldiers during the war.鈥� The poetry of Powers writing can be seen, she says, in the way that "each word is carefully chosen," adding that "the book is not about the politics of war, it鈥檚 about two guys, about their relationship. It doesn鈥檛 attempt to be this giant book about war. This is not that. It鈥檚 more in the vein of 'The Things They Carried,' or 'Dispatches.'鈥� (Check out the Monitor's review here.)
