Poetry. A harrowing, beautiful, first-person account of the Iraq war by a soldier-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Turner's HERE, BULLET is exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill: "If a body is what you want,/then here is bone and gristle and flesh./Here is the clavicle-snapped wish..." Based on his 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.

Author City: FRESNO, CA USA

Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon before serving for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. His poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review and other journals. He received a NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared on National Public Radio, the BBC, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and Weekend America, among others.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_05_008756.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/books/review/27clover.html
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2005winter/turner.shtml
http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-bullet-by-brian-turner.html