UNCOLLECTED PRESS: The Raw Art Review

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Exquisitely linguistic, unwordly both flows like a Gregorian chant and snaps like a snare, teasing the mouthfeel with a variety as vast as the emotional significance of rediscovering voice and the impact of our sound on the world. 

Jaime Dill editor-in-chief of Full Mood Magazine, and book editor at Polish and Pitch, LLC.

In unwordly, Robert Guzikowski manages to do the impossible: to convert a language disorder into a ghostly music of the soul.  This remarkable book conjures up reminders of such beat poets as Paul Blackburn, Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, with an echo of Gertrude Stein as well, while at the same time remaining utterly original.  There are wonderful interludes of word play.  unwordly is a verbal kaleidoscope, a word press of (as one poem says) “subatomic hungers colliding.”  Its integrity is evident in every line, every poem.  Two poems mention Thelonious Monk.  Guzikowski’s book couldn’t have a better guardian spirit.  This is Monk himself in poetry.

 John Vernon, author of Peter Doyle, The Last Canyon and Lucky Billy

The poems in unwordly are magical in the way magic makes sense.  All the exceptionally artful parts are designed (divined) to come together in a form of integration that is rooted in an amalgam of beauty.  Sounds, sights, imagery, the music of language – the articulation of parts in unwordly is breathtaking and deeply satisfying.   

Henry Stanton, Publisher/Editor UnCollected Press,

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Gary Beaumier’s poems present crystal clear but novel new images – images that are so refined and honed they feel like long-absent and newly discovered friends – instantly recognizable and welcomed with amazement and love. The poems are a beautiful, soft flow of line and language emerging like a rill discovered in the obscurity of some literary, linguistic woodland. This is deeply compassionate and emotional poetry that never-the-less eschews sentimentality.

• Henry Stanton , Publisher, Uncollected Press

The poet manages to bare his soul in the perfect distillation of words – this is the work of Gary Beaumier. Raw, heartfelt, and aching with all the messiness and longing of life.

• Mary Boyle,, Managing Editor of Ozaukee Living Local

In these poems present, past, and even future coexist, death and life two sides of a coin. Beaumier deftly conjures–and honors–memory as a landscape where endless discovery beckons, where sanctuary may be found.

• Virginia Small, Poet & Author of Great Gardens of the Berkshires

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These poems hit where it hurts and score when it counts. The guy writes like an angel with its hair on fire. End of story.

• John Yamrus, Author of nearly 40 books, the latest being Twenty Four Poems.

Driving the Lost Highway goes from a rainy day cup of coffee and a purring cat to a short suicide note, lonely men with stuffed unicorns for pets, then Christmas ghost memories with gone on family members, and includes more love than Hallmark could ever market. The poems read like daily prayers and ransom notes for missing hearts. They cheer for the most hopeless and forgotten underdogs and know that it’s never about keeping score. They eschew anything mainstream, cookie cutter, or poems about wrens and snowy egrets, unless they’re dying a day at a time, just like we are. Jeff Weddle’s poems pack BAM!-POW!-metaphors, and this collection stands amongst the best poetry published this year. 

Dan Denton, union autoworker, poet and novelist

These are cerebral poems that roll off the tongue and leave you smiling. Celebratory and castigatory, honest work. A delight to read.

• Bree of Green Panda Press

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“A captivating literary experiment, as well as a moving story.” — Kirkus Reviews 

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alan-bern/in-the-pace-of-the-path/

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“Alan Bern’s prose and poetry are an empathetic and lyrical journey through his life. Magical and unexpected. I was surprised again and again.”
—Delia Ephron, author of Left on Tenth

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“Alan Bern’s fictionalized memoir In the Pace of the Path also represents a diverse array of styles as he moves between free verse poetry and prose to build the story of his life in Berkeley and his career in the public library system.

Bern steps away from the library reference desk to pursue the atmosphere of Berkeley from various vantage points past and present. He captures this milieu with vignettes that move between experiences with the fluid viscosity of time travel and psychological self-inspection.”

–D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

“Alan Bern’s IN THE PACE OF THE PATH walks the border between poetry and prose, between the surreal and the realism where surrealism spawns, between the past and future which is the pace of the moment by moment of a life. I have learned from Bern’s clarity in poetry and prose to walk the edges of my homeland and step out into the unknown, while carrying the life I have lived within me. This is such an important work to read now and reread as we move through our lives.”

—Rusty Morrison, co-publisher of Omnidawn, and author, most recently, of Beyond the Chainlink

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Alan Bern’s IN THE PACE OF THE PATH charts his life in his hometown of Berkeley and gives an insightful look into his career in the public library serving that hometown, especially the unhoused, with love and compassion.

In the tradition of Chaucer, Swift and Orwell, Dean Gessie exposes the hypocrisy, hubris and grift that often underpin the human project. Mummers Eve juxtaposes cultural collisions, identity politics and family dysfunction through the vehicle of a peculiar social tradition of disguised celebrants at a neighbourhood party. The family matriarch, Adele, is a roiling maelstrom of self-interest and woke triumphalism, monetizing and politicizing her progressive views even as she clings to colonial values and traditions. In her slipstream, Adele’s four children are subjunctive beings of cynicism, boutique virtue, entitlement and self-absorption or, sometimes, victims, themselves, of perfidy and cruelty and the self-inflicted whorl of narcissism. Along the way, the foul-smelling mummer is both Adele’s moral center and gleeful accelerant to the emotional carnage that she and her family must endure. Mummers Eve is both carnival and wake, a festive elegy for those who wear dunce caps and keep time to the doomsday clock. Thomas Hobbes called it bellum omnium contra omnes or the war of all against all. This will not end well.

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