 "The Forbidden Zone" contained five long poems that describe what she saw and did working in the military hospital, and are full of passionate energy and compassion.Their style is reminiscent of Walt Whitman who also tended to the wounded on the battlefield, in his case during the American Civil War.She wrote a number of other poems about the war and also about her affair with Spears which were not published in book form until 2015, one hundred years after they were written.