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Title	:	Here, Bullet
Author	:	Brian Turner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2005 by Alice James Books
Categories	:	Poetry. War. Military Fiction. Nonfiction

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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 (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), 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. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

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Original Title:	Here, Bullet
ISBN:	1882295552 (ISBN13: 9781882295555)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Poets' Prize (2007)

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There's so much to unpack in this wonderful collection of embedded poetry, from how the speaker and the author of these poems tries to erase their subjectivity from the poetry to the wonderful bits of imagery that speak to the repetitive horrors of war to the musings on language, love, history, and monotheistic religion. It's not a perfect collection of poetry. The poems that aren't as strong are usually the ones that erase the "I", or the speaker, from the poem, and try to come off as

These poems are heart wrenching and beautiful. I plan to go back and read them again-- some felt like standing a little too close on a crumbling ledge over an electric fence. Some of these poems made me think of things my husband has said about his time in Iraq, and they were tough go read thoroughly.

This was such an impressive book. Usually I think of poets and the military in separate literary groupings. For instance, if a vet or another member of military personel happened to write a book, it almost always sounds like a non-writer just getting their thoughts down on paper, usually with the help of one or more amazing editors that pull it into focus. Not so with this book. Brian Turner really does a brilliant job writing gorgeous, layered poetry that actually sounds like a poet wrote it,

I'm an active duty service member and have served several tours in combat zones. As such, I didn't think this book would have much of an impact on me - what could the author express that I hadn't felt already? The opposite was true. I read the collection in one sitting and had to stop multiple times to wipe tears from my face. His words resonated deeply across a shared experience.

It seems impossible to me to come out against this book without offending everyone. But what if we separate the situation from the writing itself?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 the Iraq war in the way one would render a pretty sunset. Not that war is glorified here, in fact, quite the opposite. Problem is, it's not done in a particularly forward thinking or interesting manner. And now I am

I gather information from unlikely sources sometimes. I usually get the best news and current events from late night comedians. I often understand history best through the perspective of poets. Every generation is partly defined by war, and my generation has been defined by the fiasco in Iraq. Every war sends a poet, and Turners poems lend a boots-on-the-ground reality to a war we have yet to clearly define.

A series of poems about the author's experiences as a soldier in Iraq, which together sum up the price of war and this war in particular.'In the Leupold Scope,' where the narrator is looking through a spotting scope at a woman hanging laundryShe is dressing the deadThe narrator, by inference, just hasn't shot the people who will wear those clothes yet. In 'AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem)', a wounded soldier dies on her way to Germanya way of dealing with the factthat Thalia Fields is gone, long