“The poems in this fine collection sing of soldiers who return from the wars, stricken revenants, from Grant to the poet’s father. Bruce Guernsey has given us an Odyssey in small, lyric and elegiac, a lonely, haunted and haunting, moving book forever homeward bound.” - Robert Fagles

“The Lost Brigade is a powerful indictment of war, of how we bear its scars for life.” - Chris Hedges “

In ancient China, generals returning home with their armies re-entered the capital through the so-called Gates of Mourning. This was true whether the campaign had been a success or a defeat, because war is a pollution and ceremonies are required to protect the living from its inevitable consequences. The Lost Brigade, with its calm imagery and precisely spoken words, is just such a gate and ceremony.” - John Balaban

“In his moving, poignant collection, Guernsey takes us to the very outposts of remembering, where the left- behind tokens of the dead forever ring with talismanic power. The Lost Brigade is a stirring meditation on loss, and on the respite that memory provides us with: ‘a moment of light/in all that dark.’ ” - Carl Phillips

“More than just a book of poems, The Lost Brigade is a document, a history, to be read and remembered.” - John Haines

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