false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg 394423 2 <p>Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (<i>Dien Cai Dau</i>), Bruce Weigl (<i>Song of Napalm</i>) and Alice James' own Doug Anderson (<i>The Moon Reflected Fire</i>), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner's yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. <i>Here, Bullet</i> is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.</p> <p><i><b>Here, Bullet</b></i></p> <p><i>If a body is what you want,<br> then here is bone and gristle and flesh.<br> Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,<br> the aorta's opened valves, that leap<br> thought makes at the synaptic gap.<br> Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,<br> that inexorable flight, that insane puncture<br> into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish<br> what you've started. Because here, Bullet,<br> here is where I complete the word you bring<br> hissing through the air, here is where I moan<br> the barrel's cold esophagus, triggering<br> my tongue's explosives for the rifling I have<br> inside of me, each twist of the round<br> spun deeper, because here, Bullet,<br> here is where the world ends, every time.</i></p> <p><b>Brian Turner</b> earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning in November 2003 with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999 with the 10th Mountain Division. His poetry has been published in <i>Poetry Daily</i>, <i>The Georgia Review</i>, and other journals, and in the <i>Voices in Wartime Anthology</i> published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name.</p> 383963 1 11 2005 Here, Bullet total:210|5:88|4:74|3:36|2:10|1:2| 210 866 298 61 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 2 false Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 21:37:59 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 21:46:02 -0800 2008
I was wrong...more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 2 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 14:17:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 14:30:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 2 0 false Tue Feb 10 16:37:09 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 16:45:55 -0800 2009
Simply put, in my humble opinion, the writing just isn't very good. Turner had a huge opportunity here, but instead he paints a picture of t...more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 1 false Thu Apr 19 22:56:47 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 23:01:32 -0700 2007 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 3 0 false Tue Jul 21 16:48:36 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 08:34:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 0 false Wed Jan 07 22:16:04 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 19:52:43 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 22:16:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 18:58:06 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 19:18:34 -0700 2008
This not a book fo shocking inside scoops. It is beautiful in its complete depcition, unraveling, descriptive, narrations of what we all know going into it, is terribly complex. Brian Turner doesn't play the part of vicitm and doesn't put those around him into that cate...more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:18:45 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:23:07 -0800 2008 6-8 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Wed Apr 08 15:21:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 15:34:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 0 false Thu Jul 10 18:43:20 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 18:50:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 21 14:40:33 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 14:41:11 -0700 2008 Here, Bullet by Brian Turner. Having served a year in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade and a year with the 10th Mountain Division in Bosnia-Herzegovina, poet-soldier Turner reminds us of the human element of war in a way that only Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried) has before. The pages of th...more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:03:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:35:22 -0700 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 22:46:14 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 00:28:58 -0800 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 16:17:30 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 16:19:07 -0700 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 0 0 false Wed Jan 07 11:32:42 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 11:42:06 -0800 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Sun Mar 22 17:07:40 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 17:08:09 -0700 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Aug 18 04:00:03 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 04:03:37 -0700 2009 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 5 0 false Mon Mar 20 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Mar 29 08:41:16 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 08:46:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 3 0 false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 20:11:26 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 15:34:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 394423 1882295552 9781882295555 210 61 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174412574m/394423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394423.Here_Bullet 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:05:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 22:01:07 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=394423