Rick Bursky

eBook, ePUB

Let's Become a Ghost Story (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Let's Become a Ghost Story is Rick Bursky's fourth poetry collection. BOA published his previous collection, I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance, in 2015.

Bursky has a huge reputation in the advertising industry and has worked on accounts for numerous Fortune 500 companies. An award-winning television commercial he wrote appeared in the 2006 Super Bowl, and his poems were featured in Britney Spears's Intimate lingerie line in 2014/2015.

Let's Become a Ghost Story takes a sideways approach at examining the psychology of how our memories construct past events. Through absurd statements of impossible events, Bursky digs for the emotional truths at the core of romantic relationships. As Bursky summarizes the collection: "We don't find love, we make love. It doesn't matter what the wreckage of a life says, we all create our own truth-and that doesn't mean we lie. Emotional accuracy is more important than the facts."

Bursky's poems have been praised by readers and critics for their emotional honesty, accessibility, and depth. As NBCC member Victoria Chang wrote, "Bursky's poems use levity as a way to manage the darker aspects of life, of living. His poems are simultaneously funny and sad-if there was a way to bottle a stand-up comedian and a mortician, Bursky would be it."

Bursky has lived in both New York City and Los Angeles for extended periods of time, and has many connections in both places.

Bursky will promote the book heavily through his social media accounts. He has a substantive online presence, with a Facebook profile with about 1,200+ contacts (handle: Rick Bursky), and a Twitter account (handle: @RickBursky).

Technische Details

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• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Originally from New York City, Rick Bursky now lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising (a television commercial he wrote appeared on the 2006 Super Bowl and won advertising awards around the world). He also teaches poetry at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and occasionally copywriting at USC. His previous full-length collections are Death Obscura (Sarabande Books 2010), and The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press 2004); and his chapbook, The Invention of Fiction, was published by Hollyridge Press in 2005. He has a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781950774005
• Artikelnr.: 58762938