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Brian Turner: Words Of War, 'Hurt Locker' Soldier Poet's New Book

First Posted: 10/28/10 01:27 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:10 PM ET

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The Guardian:

With his award-winning 2005 debut, "Here, Bullet," a collection about his time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker brigade, the US soldier-poet picked up where Wilfred Owen and Keith Douglas left off, impressing the human horror of the conflict on a nation for whom it felt impossibly remote.

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With his award-winning 2005 debut, "Here, Bullet," a collection about his time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker brigade, the US soldier-poet picked up where Wilfred Owen and Keith Douglas left off, impres...
With his award-winning 2005 debut, "Here, Bullet," a collection about his time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker brigade, the US soldier-poet picked up where Wilfred Owen and Keith Douglas left off, impres...
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07:18 AM on 11/01/2010
More war porn for a culture that lusts for militarism.
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