AB Negative (The Surgeon’s Poem) (live)
Brian Turner reading AB Negative (The Surgeon’s Poem) live at Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005.
Brian Turner
What Every Soldier Should Know (live)
Brian Turner reading What Every Soldier Should Know live at Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005.
2000 lbs. (live)
Brian Turner reading 2000 lbs. live at Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005.
Jameel (live)
Brian Turner reading Jameel live at Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005.
A Soldier’s Arabic
This is a strange new kind of war where you learn just as much as you are able to believe. E. Hemingway The word for love, Habib, is written from right to left, starting where we would end it and ending where we might begin. Where we would end a war another might take as […]
Gilgamesh, In Fossil Relief
for Sin-lege-unninni It is the month of Ab, late summer of the seventh century B.C.E., and a poet chisels text into stone tablets, etching 3,000 lines and brushing them by hand, the dust blown off with a whispered breath. He is translating the old Sumerian epic, reinventing the city of Uruk, the Wild Man and […]
Here, Bullet
If a body is what you want, then here is bone and gristle and flesh. Here is the clavicle-snapped wish, the aorta’s opened valves, the leap thought makes at the synaptic gap. Here is the adrenaline rush you crave, that inexorable flight, that insane puncture into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish […]
Last Night’s Dream
for Ishtar In the dream her breasts become confused in my lips. I shoot an azimuth to her navel while her fingertips touch me with concussions, as if explosives rang through the nerves of my body, as if I am strung with wire, a huge receiver of UHF radio transmissions, frequency hopping with our tongues […]