The Goodbye World Poem by Turner, Brian

The Goodbye World Poem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781949944549)

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The Goodbye World Poem by Turner, Brian

The Goodbye World Poem

$17.95
The Goodbye World Poem by Turner, Brian

The Goodbye World Poem

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent "afterward" of someone's death. Losing his wife, his father, and his best friend in quick succession, Turner explores those relationships through the complicated lenses of moments in time, weaving in and out of memory to explore the disparate history that fuses together to form ones psyche. Throughout the collection, a prevailing motion recurs: that of submersion, sinking, plunging into the deep--whether it be the ocean or the subconscious. In other words, this book is a kind of poetic biography, a journey of the self that ultimately pours everything that's happened in a life--all of the love and all of the loss--into the moment of death itself. The poems are meant to be celebratory and sublime in their comprehension of what happens to our memories when we die. And, if the reader is inclined--the reader becomes the vessel who holds all of this in their own imagination, carrying Turner and his memories forward into their own lives in a small way.

Author: Brian Turner
ISBN-10: 1949944549
ISBN-13: 9781949944549
Publisher: Alice James Books
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 09/15/2023
By Brian Turner
By Brian Turner
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Brian Turner is the author of Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. His memoir My Life as a Foreign Country was published in 2014. He's the editor of The Kiss, and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper's, and other fine journals. Turner was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and he's received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a US-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets' Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the MFA program in Lake Tahoe and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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