My Life as a Foreign Country, (Hardcover)

from bjellis

I will be in the extreme minority in giving this book a low rating, While I have high regards for Turner's poetry, this memoir reads like notes for a series of poems. It is not a coherent memoir, and it is sometimes irresponsible in romanticizing death and in making inaccurate conclusions. Turner...

from TimBazzett

As horrific, ill-planned and misguided as the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been, they have, in spite of themselves, yielded a bumper crop of beautifully written books. Two such books, both memoirs from combat veterans, that immediately come to mind are Benjamin Busch's DUST TO DUS...

from TimBazzett

As horrific, ill-planned and misguided as the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been, they have, in spite of themselves, yielded a bumper crop of beautifully written books. Two such books, both memoirs from combat veterans, that immediately come to mind are Benjamin Busch's DUST TO DUS...