Phantom Noise
eBook - ePub

Phantom Noise

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Phantom Noise

About this book

Shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize. Brian Turner's first book of poems, "Here, Bullet", was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In "Phantom Noise" he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the traumatic aftermath of war. Flashbacks explode the daily hell of Baghdad into the streets and malls of peaceful California, at the same time sending Turner's imagination reeling back to Iraq. If he thought he had written all he could of his Iraq experiences in
"Here, Bullet", he was mistaken, for what he saw and felt there affected him so profoundly that more poems had to be written, years later, from a place of apparent safety. Brian Turner writes a powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. Like Keith Douglas's poems from the
North African desert in the Second World War, Turner's testament from the war in Iraq offers unflinchingly accurate description but no moral judgement, leaving the reader to draw any conclusions. Repetitive media reports show little of people's daily experience of the war and occupation. In Phantom Noise, as in Here, Bullet, we see and feel the devastatingly surreal reality of everyday life and death for soldiers and civilians through the eyes of an eloquent writer who served in the US Army for seven years,
with a year's tour of duty in Iraq as an infantry team leader.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781780370262
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. VA Hospital Confessional
  7. At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center
  8. Howl Wind
  9. Aubade: Layover in Amsterdam
  10. The Whale
  11. Chinese Ink Brush Painting
  12. Sleeping in Dick Cheney’s Bed
  13. Viking 1
  14. Perimeter Watch
  15. Illumination Rounds
  16. Puget Sound
  17. Al-A’imma Bridge
  18. Helping Her Breathe
  19. Guarding the Bomber
  20. Phantom Noise
  21. Zippo
  22. Homemade Napalm
  23. Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon
  24. Lucky Money
  25. On the Flight to Alamosa, Colorado
  26. Wading Out
  27. White Phosphorus
  28. .22 Caliber
  29. Green Alexandrine
  30. On the Surgeon’s Table
  31. Unearthed by Wind
  32. Madinat Al-Salam
  33. Stopping the American Infantry Patrol Near the Prophet Yunus Mosque in Mosul, Abu Ali Shows Them the Cloth in His Pocket
  34. Tell Me, Beautiful One, from Where Did the Lord Bring You?
  35. Insignia
  36. Mohammed Trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008
  37. A Lullaby for Bullets
  38. The Discothèque
  39. Jundee Ameriki
  40. American Internal
  41. To My Unnamed Daughter
  42. Ajal
  43. The Inventory from a Year Lived Sleeping with Bullets
  44. The Mutanabbi Street Bombing
  45. Eucalyptus
  46. In the Tannour Oven
  47. Study of Nudes by Candlelight
  48. In the Guggenheim Museum
  49. The One Square Inch Project
  50. NOTES
  51. About the Author
  52. Copyright