Bruce Merritt

Waters of the Recluse (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Asked what the book Waters of the Recluse is about, the author replied, Simply, the title alludes to the context in which the poems were written. Writing, apparently, is a lonely pursuit. The premise is that these poems were composed in solitude. As a result, the poems are, perhaps, introspective, even when addressed to or involving others [we and our are conventions referring to company]. The poems were written, recited, and now exist in isolation. The presence of water denotes this introspection. Water as an image visits each piece. It predominates as a motif in its various states: rain, ice, seas, lakes, etc. Water is protean, so it informs the relationship the poems have with dreams. These poems, in terms of composition and imagery, strive to capture the characteristics of water: fluency, mutability, and adaptability to whatever form it occupies. The virtues of water are essential to the art/craft of poetry. So reclusion and waterfluidityare the context in which these poems thrive. In that sense, these poems are exploratory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514404409
• Artikelnr.: 52588118

Autorenporträt

Bruce Merritt, born in Port Chester, New York, was educated at SUNY-Purchase and Iona College. He holds a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in literature. He is no stranger to the tristate poetry culture. Over the years, he has organized, hosted, and participated in numerous readings and open-poetry events in Westchester, Connecticut, and New York City. He was the publisher of the short-lived literary journal Stigmatic Star and has written columns, feature stories, and op-ed pieces for several Southern Westchester newspapers, including the Sound Shore Review, based in Port Chester, New York, where he also served as editor. Aside from the pages of this book, Bruce Merritt's poetry has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France in journals, anthologies, and literary reviews. He is the author of a prior book of poetry entitled Sentry the Horizon (011) and has just completed his third book of WSC, Route Nine: A Narrative, and is presently hard at work on a collection of prose sketches, tentatively entitled Prose and Other Preoccupations, scheduled to be finished within the year.