my life as a foreign country by brian turner

For more information, please call (312) 422-5580. If you require ASL interpretation or other assistance to fully participate in this program, please contact at least 72 hours prior to the program so that we can make accommodations. This event is part of Illinois Humanities Talking Service: A Veterans Discussion Group series. His recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, has been called, “achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.” Turner‘s work has been published in National Geographic, the New York Times, Poetry Daily, Harper’s Magazine, and other fine journals. He is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection and other major national awards. This event is free, but please register in advance.īrian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army, including tours of duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. Come hear selections from his poetry and his recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, and stick around for a conversation about writing about military service.

Inspired by that reciprocal relationship, Turner offers readers a window into not only his family's experience of war, but also the imagined perspectives of bystanders and enemies: bomb-makers in Iraq, families caught in the crossfire, the kamikaze pilots who fought his grandfather.Join us at the Santori Public Library for a reading and discussion by poet and veteran Brian Turner. The poet adds, 'Of course, the contract that goes with that is that others will hunt for our own.' Turner tells NPR's Arun Rath that his squad leader once said, ' 'Men, we're in the job of hunting for people's souls.' ' In his memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, the poet turns to prose, using fragmented, lyrical language to explore his inheritance of war and what it means to be a soldier today. His work includes the award-winning piece ' The Hurt Locker,' inspired by his service in Iraq.

Turner himself, whose Army deployments included tours in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Iraq, is a poet as well as a soldier. And the family's warrior tendencies went beyond deployments: Turner's dad built a martial arts studio in the garage, and the family mixed napalm and blew things up for fun. His father served during the Cold War, his uncle fought in Vietnam, his grandfather fought in World War II and his great-grandfather in World War I. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title My Life As A Foreign Country Subtitle A Memoir Author Brian Turner

My life as a foreign country by brian turner