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Feb-20-2009 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Former 3/2 SBCT soldier Brian Turner continues to receive high praise for his collection of poems, Here Bullet.

Turner will read from Here, Bullet, which includes "2,000 lbs," and other collections Monday in Reynolda House, as part of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading series at Wake Forest University. A reception and book signing will follow the reading, which is free and open to the public. [...]

Turner, who lives in Fresno when he isn't on tour reading his poems, said that journalists "create this idea of objectivity and they pressure their language" to conform to it. When war coverage sticks so closely to the facts, he said, "one of the losses for a person back home is … some of the emotional content."

"We need to know the human content, what is being lost," he said. "The emotional content is really important. If we don't connect to that part, then how informed are our decisions?"


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