Brian Turner

"For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"--

A war memoir from Sergeant Brian Turner, whose poetry gave birth to Oscar-winning film, 'The Hurt Locker'. Follows one soldier in one recent war, before expanding to combine the recalled with the imagined, leaping centuries and continents, seeking parallels in the histories of other men.

“In Phantom Noise, the speaker recognizes the degree to which language is a co-creative of reality…and as such, these poems begin to interrogate the speaker’s entanglement in acts that he had heretofore largely only recorded.” —The American Poetry Review “[Turner’s] writing is crisp, reportorial, earnest… [He] challenges us to experience war at its worst and confront its human costs without ideology or nationalism.” ―The Georgia Review “In many ways, this is not a collection for the faint-hearted, dealing as it does with deaths and mutilations. However, its scope is broader than that, as it also skillfully looks at history, culture, love, and family.” ―The North

Beschouwingen van een Amerikaanse militair over oorlog.

“The day of the first moonwalk, my father’s college literature professor told his class, ‘Someday they’ll send a poet, and we’ll find out what it’s really like.’ Turner has sent back a dispatch from a place arguably more incomprehensible than the moon—the war in Iraq—and deserves our thanks…” —The New York Times Book Review “Here, Bullet is a book of poems about the war in Iraq, written by a veteran whose eye for the telling detail is as strategic as it is poetic.” —The Globe and Mail