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Brian Turner, #2

Thursday, November 15, 2007

So Brian Turner came to visit our humble campus today and it was good day. First, and most important for me, a few of my journalism students were able to sit down with Turner before his reading and ask questions about his experiences in Iraq, and of course, about his volume of poems Here, Bullet. […]

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Brian Turner

Monday, November 12, 2007

I’m taking a one post break from the work of this blog and I’m joining my students in a post about Brian Turner. He’s an Iraq war veteran and author of a volume of poems called Here, Bullet and he’s set to visit our campus this week. I read it over the summer at the […]

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Carentan O Carentan (1949)

Sunday, August 12, 2007

For those who recall Episode 3 of Band of Brothers… Louis Simpson gives us a glimpse of fighting that pairs the pastoral with a death scene. It’s an unusual pairing, with a reserved tone all through the poem, even when the action shifts. Think about any war movie you’ve ever seen and there is always […]

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Poet: Randall Jarrell

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

In the 102 class I teach (comp and lit), I have a section of “conflict” poems. For me, it’s not enough to include all the old standards about love or death, identity, or the many in that fat anthology about animals. That’s too easy. “Conflict” types of poems are important to read as well. Among […]

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