“Extraordinary”—Margaret Randall . . . “Bravo”—Bruce Weigl

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Praise for Nightmares

"The true and deadly legacy of war is that the trauma never leaves.  So, a question arises that asks, What are we to do with these moments that haunt us?  Reading Robert Bohm’s new collection, I’ve discovered the answer: write poems that don’t politicize the war, or that don’t sentimentalize the war, but that reveal to the reader the careful and deadly details of combat, with a sharp precision and a powerfully ironic tone.  Bravo, I say, and I urge you to read this book."

—Bruce Weigl, poetry award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (for Song of Napalm and The Abundance of Nothing) received the Bronze Star for his service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

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“In Nightmares That Leave Grease Stains On Psych Ward Walls, Robert Bohm has given us something extraordinary: poems not merely about the posttraumatic stress that assaults so many of us in these times, but ones born from the inside of that  posttraumatic stress. These are texts that take us into lived experience and allow us to know an enemy that can never be fully defeated. War, violence, abuse and most recently pandemic have made so many of us tragically familiar with PTSD. Yet Bohm’s poems are also strangely hopeful. Their ability to involve the reader and then release him or her lies in the poet’s attention to detail, to inner meaning and overall significance.”

—Margaret Randall, internationally renowned author of Stormclouds (poetry), I Never Left Home (memoir) and numerous other works.

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