'My Life as a Foreign Country is brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I've ever encountered - a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature.' Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried
Brian Turner, born in 1967, is an American poet, essayist and
professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut
collection, Here, Bullet, the first of many awards and honors
received for this collection of poems about his experience as a
soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary
Fellowship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S.
Eliot Prize, is Phantom Noise.
Turner served for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry
team leader for a year in Iraq from November 2003 with the 3rd
Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999-2000 he
was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 10th Mountain Division.
Brian Turner's stunning 'war memoir' is a triumph of form and
content...Man must look at what he has done. And Turner looks,
brilliantly
*New York Times*
[Turner is] a soldier with the soul of a poet…remarkable
*Daily Telegraph*
Wrathful, wry and incantatory
*New Statesman*
Ambitious… Fascinating
*Sunday Times*
His shrapnel-like chapters come at you from all angles… [A] most
compulsive of survivor’s tales
*Guardian*
An uncompromising story of violence and beauty, searing trauma and
a dreamlike circulation between the past and the present… This
marvellous memoir is his poetic message, floating gently towards
us
*Sunday Telegraph*
Vivid… The war on the ground and the conflict in the head are
combined in a work of art
*The Times*
The most haunting book I read this year
*Irish Times*
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