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3 books match the query 'Willard, Bruce'
Holding Ground
Bruce Willard
Four Way Books, 2013
Often rooted in nature, the poems in Holding Ground are written from a precipice, in the space of a quiet whisper before the howl of the approaching storm: “Let’s look for shelter,” he says. The effect is an atmosphere of yearning, and of searching to understand the simple as well as the difficult moments in a life.
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In Light of Stars
Bruce Willard
Four Way Books, 2021
Willard’s love of music combines with his love and respect for the natural world. Often rooted in, or coming out of, domestic encounters, the poems of this collection rise up (much like the clouds over his oft-traversed Rockies), as the speaker throws his attention to earth and sky, better to understand his own dynamic and shifting inner weather.
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Violent Blues
Bruce Willard
Four Way Books, 2016
Violent Blues is a blues-harp album of words, a soundtrack of self-violence and loss, introspection and renewal—one man’s search for intimacy and enduring music. Its poems are rooted in the natural world and tethered by concrete experience.
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