Guest of Time - Softcover

McBride, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733657428 ISBN 13: 9781733657426

Verlag: Pond Road Press, 2023

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This is a powerful collection filled with poems of love, loss, and war that really come to life. Driven by a "longing . . . for my own past self," McBride goes deep into the heart of human experience, playing off his exact and precise use of language against the unreliability of memory. From the comic sexiness of "The Dance" to the gut-wrenching poems that come out of his time in the Vietnam War ("The Operating Room" is hard to forget), to poignant poems of family life and marriage, this book gives us a fierce elegiac music that will resonate in readers' minds long after they've stopped reading.

Terence Winch, author of The Known Universe, Hanging Loose Press

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Born months before the end of WWII, Greg McBride's life has been marked by the military, athletics, law, and poetry. His peripatetic childhood-he was an "Army brat"-took him to California, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Missouri, Okinawa, Oregon, Yokohama, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. In later years, he was a Pennsylvania state wrestling champion, an Army photographer in the Vietnam War, a public service lawyer in Washington, D.C., a father, a grandfather, and a leader on behalf of the revitalization of his hometown. In his 50s, McBride began writing poems and several years later founded the Innisfree Poetry Journal, currently in its 19th year of biannual publication. At the age of 67, he published his first full-length collection of poems, Porthole, (Briery Creek Press, 2012), which won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Other honors include the Boulevard Emerging Poet prize and grants in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. McBride's work has appeared in such journals as Alaska Quarterly, Bellevue, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, Rhino, River Styx, and Salmagundi.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pond Road Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1733657428
• ISBN 13: 9781733657426
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
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