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Brian Turner

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Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, and five collections of poetry— Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise; with The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Goodbye World Poem, and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook due out from Alice James Books in Fall, 2023. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. A musician, he’s written and recorded albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and American Undertow with The Retro Legion. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for ...more

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Here, Bullet

4.16 avg rating — 1,616 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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My Life as a Foreign Countr...

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Phantom Noise

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The Kiss: Intimacies from W...

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The Goodbye World Poem

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The Dead Peasant's Handbook

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Herbal Teas Simplified: Red...

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21 Breaths to a Better You:...

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Built From Scratch: How to ...

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“Open the hurt locker and see what there is of knives and teeth.

Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls. ”
Brian Turner

“It should make you shake and sweat,
nightmare you, strand you in the desert
of irrevocable desolation, the consequences
seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline
feeds the muscle its courage, no matter
what god shines down on you, no matter
what crackling pain and anger
you carry in your fists, my friend,
it should break your heart to kill.”
Brian Turner

“...because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.”
Brian Turner, Here, Bullet
tags: combat, war

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