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