| My Life as a Foreign Country Contributor(s): Turner, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393245012 ISBN-13: 9780393245011 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014025849 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. In this breathtaking memoir, award-winning poet Brian Turner retraces his war experience--pre-deployment to combat zone, homecoming to aftermath. Free of self-indulgence or self-glorification, his account combines recollection with the imagination's efforts to make reality comprehensible. Across time, he seeks parallels in the histories of others who have gone to war, especially his taciturn grandfather (World War II), father (Cold War), and uncle (Vietnam). Turner also offers something that is truly rare in a memoir of violent conflict--he sees through the eyes of the enemy, imagining his way into the experience of the other. Through it all, he paints a devastating portrait of what it means to be a soldier and a human being. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Brian: - Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. The Kiss was conceived with his late wife, the acclaimed poet Ilyse Kusnetz, to whom it is dedicated. It was developed from a series he curated for Guernica. |