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Phantom Noise
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General PoetryIraq War (2003-2011)
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ISBN13: 9781882295807
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 7.12 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards
In Phantom Noise, the speaker recognizes the degree to which language is a co-creative of reality...and as such, these poems begin to interrogate the speaker's entanglement in acts that he had heretofore largely only recorded.--The American Poetry Review
[Turner's] writing is crisp, reportorial, earnest... [He] challenges us to experience war at its worst and confront its human costs without ideology or nationalism.--The Georgia Review
In many ways, this is not a collection for the faint-hearted, dealing as it does with deaths and mutilations. However, its scope is broader than that, as it also skillfully looks at history, culture, love, and family.--The North
[Turner's] is a poetry of horror, but also one of love and loss, infused with the restless spirits of the dead who hover over the living on both sides...His is a voice of honesty and despair, of imperfection and a self-awareness that most of us can only pretend to possess.--Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
Turner's book of poems is something that transcends poetry...--New Pages
Turner's second book, Phantom Noise, continues to bear witness...looking on with equal parts courage and concern, but also as a poet whose language is always drawing comparisons, shifting the picture to encompass not just one tragedy, but a world's worth...--Salamander
Turner's resilient, humane poems remind us of war's impact but also provoke and question.--The Guardian
It's hard to think of a better way around ideology than poetry like this. Turner shows us soldiers who are invincible and wounded, a nation noble and culpable, and a war by turns necessary and abominable. He brings us closer to our own phantom guilt and speaks the words that we both do and do not want to hear.--The Washington Post
...we need [Turner's] bracing bullet-borne language as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line.--The New York Times
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