My new chapbook, Marriage: A History, has been released for advance sale from Finishing Line Press.
Widowed, divorced, widowed again, yet in age finding love once more, the author of Marriage: A History explores loss, grief, struggle, and love in lyrics that are by turns penetrating and tender.
In poignant lyric poems Bruce Parker traces the emotional terrain of four marriages from the ache of loss—we yearned to go with you/not left behind—to the unexpected grace of new intimacy—Look how I swim and dart beneath your skin…/a school of small silver passions teeming, teeming. Parker’s voice is steady, expressing his devotion and reverence for the ordinary: Because in the long sleep to come/there will be no dreams/I touch you now. As well as a personal record, Marriage: A History is a universal meditation on what it means to love.
–Leah Stenson, author of The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems and Life Revised.
The cover photo is by yours truly, taken at Wilderness Edge Resort, five miles south of the Utah border, near Ennis, Montana. Rainbow and sunset looking east.
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