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jim bourey
110pp, 6 x 9, soft cover perfect bound
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Like John Prine, jim bourey holds us close
to a life that dries its boots beside the same wood stove his
grandfather used.
~ William Lessard, Editor,
Heavy Feather Review
author of instrument for distributed empathy
monetization
jim bourey writes with an open heart that
refuses to close, despite the world. These poems are crafted with grace
and humor, and never settle for an easy word. The poet gives us so much
of himself in these poems and asks only that we pay a little bit more
attention to the pageantry of life in return. We are better people for
it.
~ Lindsey Warren, author of
Unfinished Child and Sentence, Forest
The poems in jim bourey’s Out There And
Back Again explore the complexities of aging, while also looking
back at a time "before Disney and the tourists." With a voice that is
wry, insightful, and wise, he addresses the reader when he writes "(Did
you notice all the big words in the first sentence?)." Even painful
memories contain "kind lies." A keen observer of the world around him,
he notes "birds called out as the horses slept." He and his wife are too
polite to sit on abandoned furniture in the woods, plus they fear snakes
may lurk in the cushions. This fine collection deals with beauty and
pain, with the poet facing his own mortality. bourey asks "only for a
little more time, less confusion, a touch of hope."
~ Katherine Gekker, author of In
Search of Warm Breathing Things
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