![]() ![]() Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried ![]() It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I've ever encountered―a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature.” “ My Life as a Foreign Country is brilliant and beautiful. “Turner is the rare soldier-writer who takes a deep interest in Iraqis―their language and literature, their past, their daily doings, their inner lives.” eloquent rendering illuminates both the shared space and the painful divide between poet and soldier, mission and memory, war and peace.” “Turner is.a poet, and he cannot help but see the world, even the world of combat, in terms of beauty, fragility and heartbreaking splendor. Jen Percy, The New York Times Book Review History can only be served by this kind of attention. Turner has a talent for amalgamating disparate experiences, especially between civilian and soldier, but also between history and the present. ![]() “ praiseworthy example of how the empathetic imagination can function beautifully in nonfiction writing. ![]() 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. ![]()
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