Denying Epiphany
Otremba’s are poems of rigorous looking. In most, a speaker coolly observes a work of art, a person or animal, the poems’ tensions emerging in part from the speaker’s struggle…
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Bruce Snider
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Bruce Snider is the author of The Year We Studied Women, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in poetry. A former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, his poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, and PN Review.
The Best Music is Made of Subtraction
Like the Jazz, Blues, and R&B music Brown references, these poems are born of heartbreak, explorations of love and violence, connections and disconnections, the vast complications of body and heart.
Rediscovering the West
As much as these poems tap into a mythic story of the West, they are not linear narratives, but circuitous maps of anxiety and desire, a portrait of an inner world masquerading as meditations on people and place.