about post-traumatic stress to be expected, this book [Phantom Noise by Brian Turner] often takes surprising turns. In "Sleeping in Dick Cheney's Bed," for example, the narrator doesn't rage at Cheney's untruths about the reason we invaded Iraq. Instead, we hear this quiet disclosure after a lecture at the Air Force Academy: "what does it say about me/that I can return to Cheney's room after midnight,/strip my clothes off to curl in the bed/where he too has slept . . ."from Powells: Review-A-Day: Post-Traumatic Poetry
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