Turner reminds us that we are made of flesh and blood. He exposes us to the frailty of the human body in the arena of war. In poems such as Here, Bullet and the Hurt Locker, Turner graphically reveals how the body is shattered when exposed to the machines of war. This collection of poems engaged me both intellectually and emotioanally/5(). Here is the adrenaline rush you crave, that inexorable flight, that insane puncture into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet, here is where I complete the word you bring hissing through the air, here is where I moan the barrel’s cold esophagus, triggering my tongue’s explosives for the rifling I have. The poem by Brian Turner, written with the experiences of the Iraq war fresh in his mind, is a challenge towards a personified bullet. Turner vividly describes the bullets actions within the human body. Starting from the flesh outside, muscles into the depth, breaking a bone and rupturing the bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.
"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." —Globe and Mail "With Brian Turner's Here, Bullet, we have the first war poetry since Yusef Komunyaaka's Dien Cai Dau that matters." —Rain Taxi. [Brian Turner was a guest at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam. This text was written for this occasion.] Bibliography Here, Bullet, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME, (republished in UK by Bloodaxe Books, Manchester, ) Talk the Guns, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME (forthcoming in ) related items articles. About Brian Turner Brian Turner (born ) lived in South Korea for a year before serving in the U.S. Army. He was an infantry team leader in Iraq, beginning November Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in Here, Bullet, his debut poetry collection, is based on his yearlong mission in Iraq.
Turner reminds us that we are made of flesh and blood. He exposes us to the frailty of the human body in the arena of war. In poems such as Here, Bullet and the Hurt Locker, Turner graphically reveals how the body is shattered when exposed to the machines of war. This collection of poems engaged me both intellectually and emotioanally. Turner is sort of having an unsettling conversation with a bullet in this poem. The bullet is personified and represents the bloodthirsty nature of death. He speaks as though he offers his body as a sacrifice unto the bullet, realizing the dissatisfaction of its mortality. Brian Turners Here, Bullet is a book of poems that describe his first hand experience on what it was like fighting a war in Iraq from a United Sta. In the book Here, Bullet the author Brian Turner uses this as a tool to somehow manage to describe war and what it was like using beautiful and soothing language.
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