Rick Bursky was born and raised in New York City. Immediately following high school he spent four years as a paratrooper in the army. College would follow, earning Bursky a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His first full-length collection of poems, The Soup of Something Missing, was published by Bear Star Press (2004) after winning the Dorothy Brunsmen Poetry Prize. Hollyridge Press published his chapbook, The Invention of Fiction. He has twice been nominated for a Puchcart Prize and his poems have appeared in many journals including American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Shenandoah, and New Letters . Rick works in advertising and teaches poetry at UCLA Extension. He lives in Los Angeles.
Then What
The Mandolin
The Virtu
Lament for the Persians
The Letter
The Aerodynamics
The Tide
Heroine in Repose
Two Sonnets for the Left Ventricle of the Heart
Sutra
The Scratch
The Surface of the Tongue
The Argonaut Years
Judas
You Can Talk To A Ghost All You Want, It Won¿t Change A Thing
The Silences
The Immortals
The Separation
Ocular Triptych
The Strangers
The History of Traitors
The Meaning of Numbers
The Assumed
Death Obscura
The Resting
The Noise
The Hypnology
The Original Purpose of the Box
The Waiting
Celebrating the Ritual
The Short Season of Sleep
December
Elegy Written in Four Seasons
The Collections
The Promise
The Invention of Fiction
