My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir

An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as "Sergeant Turner" with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family--and even those of the enemy--in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty.

Author: Brian Turner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/05/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780393351842

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
Turner, Brian: - Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. The Kiss was conceived with his late wife, the acclaimed poet Ilyse Kusnetz, to whom it is dedicated. It was developed from a series he curated for Guernica.