With an introduction by Sarabjeet Garcha
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“We need [Turner’s] bracing ‘bullet-borne language’ as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line”
The New York Times
“Turner’s resilient, humane poems remind us of war’s impact but also provoke and question”
The Guardian
“He brings us closer to our own phantom guilt and speaks the words that we both do and do not want to hear”
The Washington Post
“Here, Bullet is a book of poems about the war in Iraq, written by a veteran whose eye for the telling detail is as strategic as it is poetic”
The Globe and Mail
“These poems begin to interrogate the speaker’s entanglement in acts that he had heretofore largely only recorded”
The American Poetry Review
“Turner’s book of poems is something that transcends poetry”
New Pages
“Challenges us to experience war at its worst and confront its human costs without ideology or nationalism”
The Georgia Review
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