Here, Bullet - Couverture souple

Turner, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852247991 ISBN 13 : 9781852247997

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

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 present 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 through the eyes of an eloquent writer who served in the US Army for seven years, with a year's tour of duty in Iraq as an infantry team leader. "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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 abroad in South Korea for a year before joining the army. His poetry was included in the VOICES IN WARTIME ANTHOLOGY published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. HERE, BULLET (Bloodaxe, 2007) was first published by Alice James Books in the US in 2005, where it has earned Turner nine major literary awards, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852247991
• ISBN 13: 9781852247997
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible