A review by pturnbull
The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate

5.0

One hundred surrealist prose poems. They read like dreams. The names of the characters are unimportant. One person blends into another. The landscape changes. The narrative unfolds through dialog. The common factor among them all is a sense of powerlessness. Something, somebody is controlling the drama. Whether it be the war-machine, a secretive corporate agency, God, a dreamer--we are all stuck in a time and place, unable to determine what to do, where to find safety, who to trust. Brilliant but numbing.