| My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir Contributor(s): Turner, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 039335184X ISBN-13: 9780393351842 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as "Sergeant Turner" with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family--and even those of the enemy--in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty. |
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. |