During his Civil War service, Elisha Hunt Rhodes, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, wrote in his diary, “Sunday a soldier of Company A died and was buried. Everything went on as if nothing had happened, for death is so common that little sentiment is wasted. It is not like a death at home.”

Paul Tebo’s most recent collection, Death at Home, is a meditation on how war alters the ways men perceive themselves and their relationship with time.