28 talking about this. Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years in the U.S. Army. Brian Turner will be reading from Phantom Noise at the Southbank Centre on Saturday 30 October, 4pm as part of the Poetry International festival. In 1999–2000 he was sent with the 10th Mountain Division to Bosnia-Herzegoniva. Brian Turner, known for his writing about the Iraq War, is the author of Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, 2010), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His poetic debut, [Brian Turner was a guest at the 2009 Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam. There is no comment submitted by members.. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. The 107s have a crackling sound Free of self-indulgence or self-glorification, his account combines recollection with the imagination’s efforts to make reality comprehensible.
No book of poetry since Yusef Komunyakaa’s “There is the war we know—from Hollywood and CNN, about dirt-smeared soldiers disarming IEDs and roaring along in Humvees and kicking down the doors of terrorist hideouts—and then there is the battleground of the mind, the war that Brian Turner carried home with him like a rucksack full of dynamite…. No book of poetry since Yusef Komunyakaa’s Dien Cai Dau brings us as close to the realities of combat as this, but the realities are uniquely Iraq’s. His first book, Here, Bullet, chronicles his time in Iraq. Brian Turner was born in Visalia in California. The curve of her hip where I'd lay my head, To yield force to is an act of necessity, not of will;
Now, each night beside his sleeping wife, he imagines himself as a drone aircraft, hovering over the terrains of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the killing fields of Cambodia and the death camps of Europe—a landscape of ongoing violence, revealing all that man has done to man.“In Brian Turner’s extraordinarily capable hands, language is war’s undoing, in the sense that his words won’t allow absurdity and terror to be anything less than real. His mountaineering experience includes an ascent of a number of major peaks including Aoraki / Mount Cook. Their objectives were to give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the publishing process.The press remains true to that mission and to publishing a diversity of poets including both beginning and established poets, and a diversity of poetic styles. Brian Turner was born in Visalia in California. Subsequently, he served for seven years in the American army. He received a BA from Fresno State in 1994 and an MFA from the University of Oregon in 1996. This memoir enacts the journey of an epic poem where war, and love, and unspeakable grief accrue sensations, stories and names, like a sharp blade upturning earth—an intimate logbook of experiences. Brian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army.
Brian Turner (USA, 1967) Nederlands Wednesday 15 April 2009. Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years in the U.S. Army. In 2004, he led an infantry squad in Iraq that was stationed in the neighbourhood of the city of Mosul. Then in November 2003 he was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Descriptions of 2021 Poet-at-Large Brian Turner’s virtual high school performances and a special evening event with this distinguished poet are forthcoming. Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years in the U.S. Army. “In My Life as a Foreign Country, Brian Turner reckons with a personal theatre where faces and places converge; moments of candor and existential longing break open to expose a world of truths. He was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. A war memoir of unusual literary beauty and power from the acclaimed poet who wrote the poem “The Hurt Locker.” In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. Through it all, Turner paints a devastating portrait of what it means to be a soldier and a human being.“Turner’s voice is prophetic, an eerie calm in the midst of calamity…as precise as a bullet, as all-encompassing as the apocalypse. Brian Turnerwas born in Dunedin in 1944. The ambiguous kiss. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.” “Brian Turner’s poems are indispensable not only for their craft and their penetrating lyric power, but for the circumstances under which they were written. Read all poems of Brian Turner and infos about Brian Turner.
He has published a number of collections including Just This which won the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry in 2010.
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