from 2025 post in ModPo When Armantrout wrote “Freeze Tag,” it was after 9/11, a time of war talk, fear, and pressure to keep buying as a way of showing “patriotism” as part of a culture that encouraged shopping as reassurance. People worried about poisons in the air, in food, in clothes. Her poem shows…
Month: September 2026
Primacy of Moral Influence in Warfare: A Mesostic Reflection on Sun Tzu’s Art of War
from my 2024 post in ModPo This Cagean mesostic poem, is built around the spine words “MORAL INFLUENCE, COMMAND, DOCTRINE,” that draws from Sun Tzu’s Art of War to explore a critical subset of the five fundamental factors he identifies for appraising war. The other two are TERRAIN and WEATHER. Too long for the spine….
Maryam Daftari Photography, Poetry, Commentary 