Synopses & Reviews
In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. Now he lies awake each night beside his sleeping wife, imagining 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.
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"Turner's poetic gaze irradiates his world. . . . [His] memoir is beautiful, electrifying and full of pain." Roxana Robinson
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"Violence . . . mingles by metaphor with dreams, eroticism, history, classical poetry, until the borders between individuals and worlds melt away." Washington Post
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"Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a meditation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book." George Packer The New Yorker
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"Moments of candor and existential longing break open to expose a world of truths...Brian Turner is a born storyteller." Larry Heinemann, author of Paco's Story, winner of the National Book Award
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"The psychological consequences of war are movingly portrayed... [a] standout." Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Neon Vernacular, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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"One of the most important memoirs to come out of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... exceptional." Publishers Weekly
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An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as "Sergeant Turner" with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family--and even those of the enemy--in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty.
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"Stunning . . . a triumph of form and content. . . . History can only be served by this kind of attention."--
About the Author
Brian Turner is the director of the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College and the prize-winning author of two poetry collections about his seven years in the United States Army. He lives in Orlando, Florida.