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Counting Cards: A Poetics for Deployment

  • Susannah Hollister (author)
Chapter of: Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi(pp. 103–117)

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TitleCounting Cards
SubtitleA Poetics for Deployment
ContributorSusannah Hollister (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.10
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightHollister, Susannah
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-29
Long abstractWhen packing for a war zone, a deck of cards is an obvi-ous choice. Most soldiers fit one into a rucksack or combat uniform, issued items that seem designed for slipping extra items into their many side pockets. A preventative measure of a kind, a deck of cards promises to protect against boredom or unwanted conversation, and will serve without a wireless signal or powered battery.My now husband deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, and he took with him a lightly used, ordinary, Bicycle-brand deck. I don’t remember where it came from or even whether I knew he packed it. But within a week of his departure we were play-ing a game—if game is the word for the system we devised. A very simple, wholly necessary game. It required two decks, the one he kept and one that I did.
Page rangepp. 103–117
Print length15 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)