News at Eleven: Of the thousands upon thousands of books

written about the Civil War, there are but a few that, instead of relying on battle maps, lists of dates, and casualty rolls to tell a black-and-white history, seek to illustrate the conflict's sanguine horrors by peering through the eyes of those who fought--and fewer still that abandon flowery prose and adapt the terse, sheer style of poetry in order to do it.

But that's exactly what Vernon poet S. Thomas Summers has done in his new book, entitled "Private Hercules McGraw: Poems of the American Civil War," which he will be reading from at the Ringwood Public Library on Oct. 20.

from Suburban Trends: Vernon poet S. Thomas Summers to read at the Ringwood Public Library on Oct. 20

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