Bruce Weigl and Brian Turner

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Declension in the Village of Chung Luong (Ausable Press) and Here, Bullet (Alice James Books)
Bruce Weigl is a poet who served in Vietnam. Brian Turner wrote poetry while serving in Iraq. Theirs is the poetry of war as written by on-site observers. These poets eschew easy platitudes about the horrors of war, returning readers to the human revelations that are the consequences of the politics of warfare.

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• Bruce Weigl: poet
• Brian Turner: poet

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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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