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Here, Bullet
Brian Turner
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Description for Here, Bullet
Paperback. A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 214 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134.
Here, Bullet is a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. Iraq war veteran Brian Turner writes powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. Like Keith Douglas’s poems from the North African desert in the Second World War, Turner’s testament from the war in Iraq offers unflinchingly accurate description but no moral judgement, leaving the reader to draw any conclusions. Repetitive media reports show little of people’s daily experience of the five-year war. In Here, Bullet, we see and feel the devastatingly surreal reality of everyday life and death for soldiers and civilians ... Read more
Here, Bullet is a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. Iraq war veteran Brian Turner writes powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. Like Keith Douglas’s poems from the North African desert in the Second World War, Turner’s testament from the war in Iraq offers unflinchingly accurate description but no moral judgement, leaving the reader to draw any conclusions. Repetitive media reports show little of people’s daily experience of the five-year war. In Here, Bullet, we see and feel the devastatingly surreal reality of everyday life and death for soldiers and civilians ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247997
SKU
V9781852247997
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Ref
99-1
About Brian Turner
Brian Turner served for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq from November 2003 with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999-2000 he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 10th Mountain Division. Born in 1967, he received an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived ... Read more
Reviews for Here, Bullet
The poems in Here, Bullet are steeped in pity for the occupants of Iraq, while at the same time remaining on full alert to the likely moment "when a twelve-year-old / rolls a grenade into the room"... The most effective instrument in Turner’s kit is his detachment – the particulars are so shocking that they need no sentimental boost – ... Read more