Boa Editions, Ltd offers The Stick Solders by Hugh Martin with a Foreword by Cornelius Eady. At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college when his National Guard unit was activated for a deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent eleven months in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeants Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of Unexploded Ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. The poems in his Poulin Prize-winning debut collection recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio.