Comments on: brian turner | here, bullet

By: warmemoir

warmemoir — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:11:02 +0000

Take a look at what I’ve put out on wordpress, warmemoir. Let me know what you think.

Joel

By: Jon Wolston

Jon Wolston — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:54:38 +0000

Brian was interviewed in The New Yorker awhile back.

By: MaryAnn Grzych

MaryAnn Grzych — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:38:05 +0000

Robert Bly felft so strongly about the war in Iraq that he gave copies of The Insanity of Empire to those of us who attended his reading in Oak Park, Illinois a few years ago.
Unless my memory fails me (which it does more and more these days) Jackie Langetieg wrote some powerful anit Iraqi war poems a few years ago. She was at one of Judith Strasser and Robin Chapman’s poetry workshops at The Clearing 4 or 5 years ago.

By: Ralph Murre

Ralph Murre — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:06:06 +0000

Rob Z’s point is a good one. While my budget at Little Eagle is miniscule, I am more than willing to put my limited resources where my mouth is. Show me a manuscript of GOOD poetry and art, on the topic of pacifism and that feels relevant to our current situation, and I’ll be very excited to put it out there. The problem though, with any small press operation, is that a popular blog will reach more people in a day than we might in a lifetime. That is not a cop-out; merely a statement of fact.

By: Norbert Blei

Norbert Blei — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:53:52 +0000

Speaking for Cross+Roads Press, when and if I ever come across an Iraq or Afghanistan
war ms. as engaging as all the the WW II and Vietnam writers I mentioned, writers in the thick of it…keen eyes, deep hearts, the true words to tell it straight, shape the violence into art—I would publish it in an instant.

Norbert Blei
Cross+Roads Press

By: Robert M. Zoschke

Robert M. Zoschke — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:32:31 +0000

Maybe Cross+Roads Press should put out a chapbook or a book by a writer who answers the questions Norb and Ralph pose.

By: Robert M. Zoschke

Robert M. Zoschke — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:31:20 +0000

Maybe Little Eagle Press should put out a chapbook or a book by a writer who answers the questions you pose.

By: Sharpstone Herb Grinder

Sharpstone Herb Grinder — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:28:13 +0000

Extremely physical wording and deep dark almost guilty perspective. At least thats what I got from his poetry and bio.
Thanks
GW

By: Ralph Murre

Ralph Murre — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:27:45 +0000

Yes, where are the writers and where are the publishers who can question another “good war”? Wonderful work here from Turner, and there may be a handful of others, but it feels like pacifism is some sort of black sin in these days of “support the troops” no matter their mission. Sit quietly through commercials that recruit our children to become agents of war, put a redwhite’n'blue ribbon on your car and don’t ask any questions, vote for who you want, even the one who talks of ending the war, but don’t expect him to live up to it. Maybe it’s just me growing up (!), but it feels like the kids at the front are more than ever the pawns, and the kings really got threatened this time. Do we need the writers to tell us, again, of the horrors of the bloody field, or should we listen to the ones that tell of the horrors of the political processes that fertilize that ground?

By: NFR

NFR — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:15:23 +0000

I was privilaged to hear Brian Turner at the Dodge Poetry Festival a few years ago. Since then I did hear an interview with him on NPR. He impresses me as an earnest young man who has much to tell us. Here Bullet should be required reading for all those military leaders who are supposedly reading Three Cups of Tea.