Contents ( 50)
- Description
- PHANTOM NOISE
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- VA Hospital Confessional
- At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center
- Howl Wind
- Aubade: Layover in Amsterdam
- The Whale
- Chinese Ink Brush Painting
- Sleeping in Dick Cheney’s Bed
- Viking 1
- Perimeter Watch
- Illumination Rounds
- Puget Sound
- Al-A’imma Bridge
- Helping Her Breathe
- Guarding the Bomber
- Phantom Noise
- Zippo
- Homemade Napalm
- Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon
- Lucky Money
- On the Flight to Alamosa, Colorado
- Wading Out
- White Phosphorus
- .22 Caliber
- Green Alexandrine
- On the Surgeon’s Table
- Unearthed by Wind
- Madinat Al-Salam
- Tell Me, Beautiful One, from Where Did the Lord Bring You?
- Insignia
- Mohammed Trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008
- A Lullaby for Bullets
- The Discothèque
- Jundee Ameriki
- American Internal
- To My Unnamed Daughter
- Ajal
- The Inventory from a Year Lived Sleeping with Bullets
- The Mutanabbi Street Bombing
- Eucalyptus
- In the Tannour Oven
- Study of Nudes by Candlelight
- In the Guggenheim Museum
- The One Square Inch Project
- NOTES
- About the Author
- Copyright
His poetry was included in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. His collection Here, Bullet (Bloodaxe Books, 2007) was first published by Alice James Books in the US in 2005, where it has earned Turner nine major literary awards, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. In 2009 he was given an Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship. Published in 2010 by Alice James Books in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, his second collection, Phantom Noise was shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize.
Copyright
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Copyright © Brian Turner 2010
This edition first published 2010 by
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Original US edition first published 2010
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