In the aftermath of his bestselling collection "Here, Bullet," Turner deftly turns his attention to the war in Iraq. These prophetic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting.

Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon before serving with the US Army as an infantry team leader in Iraq. He has been featured on National Public Radio, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the BBC. He has received an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.