Bridges: To There by Gary W. Burns
Gary Burns’ Bridges: To There is an evocative collection of poetry, but lacks the visceral immediacy of his earlier collections of meditative poetry, such as Clouds: On the Wind.
Within the first of the four sections, the poems contain the same mixture of Haiku-esque observation, yet contain a childlike rhyme scheme. For example, in “The Wind All About”:
In the trees, with ease
The bird flees the stir of leaves
When the spirit of the wind
Stirs us
Go we must
The effect this has is to draw the reader away from the actual words and images and focuses […]
Armani, from Montréal Canada holds a BA in Political Science. He works as a writer, entrepreneur and barber. Armani has also worked for political parties, boards of directors, Brazilian start-ups and served drinks. His writing, fiction or otherwise is a search for the reasons behind our actions and whether they really help us as a people. Electric Order is Armani’s first novel.
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