This Sunday, October 23rd, Reading-Signing at Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Coming this Sunday, my reading/book signing event at Trident Booksellers & Cafe, in Boulder, Colorado. This is a Free event.

From Trident Booksellers:

Award winning Colorado Poet and Musician Bruce Arlen Wasserman will be reading from his newly released book, THE BROKEN NIGHT. 

“In The Broken Night Bruce Wasserman performs the poet’s task of breaking bread with the dead,” says Betsy Sholl, author of House of Sparrows and Rough Cradle.  “In the book’s elegant long poem… Wasserman uses rich musical pacing to weave in different historical contexts, and thus creates for us a poem that is complex, beautiful and heartbreaking, as is this entire book. It celebrates and grieves, and makes space for the reader to experience mystery and awe.” Bruce is an accomplished musician (bass, guitar, harmonica) and the brother of famed bassist Rob Wasserman of Rat Dog, so it is not surprising that Bruce’s writing reflects an inherence sense of musicality.

He received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a literary critic for the New York Journal of Books. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a semi-finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers, a semi-finalist for the Proverse Prize and won the Anna Davidson Rosenberg 2019 Poetry Award. Bruce’s writing has been published in the Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology, The Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, The River Heron Review, Kindred Literary Magazine, the Broad River Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, High Shelf Literary Magazine, Wild Roof Journal and the Washington Independent Review of Books.

Bruce will be available to sign copies of his book after the reading. You can follow his blog at http://www.brucearlenwasserman.com.

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Review of Winter Recipes From The Collective on NYJB

Bruce’s review of Louise Gluck’s Winter Recipes From The Collective, which was released in paperback on October 11, 2022, is now available on the New York Journal of Books website. “If poets are culinarians and books of poetry are formulaic collections of culinary art,” Bruce writes, “then Louise Glück, in her latest book, Winter Recipes From The Collective, is a starred Michelin chef or a master pâtissier in the careful dispensing of her poems’ edible delights.” Read the review HERE. And if you’d like to read Bruce’s latest poetry collection, The Broken Night, you can purchase a copy at BarnesandNoble.com or at Amazon.com.

 

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Upcoming Readings for Bruce Arlen Wasserman

Bruce will be reading at the following events in October:

October 2nd, 3 pm eastern: Evil Grin Poetry Series (Zoom- see link). Here is the link:
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October 23rd, 6 pm mountain: Reading THE BROKEN NIGHT, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl street, Boulder, CO 80302 click to see event on the Trident website:

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Book Giveaway on Goodreads

Hurry to enter our FREE GIVEAWAY of five signed, first edition copies of my just released book, THE BROKEN NIGHT, on Goodreads.com!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Broken Night by Bruce Arlen Wasserman

The Broken Night

by Bruce Arlen Wasserman

Giveaway ends September 18, 2022.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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THE BROKEN NIGHT NOW AVAILABLE

Released July 15th, my latest poetry collection, THE BROKEN NIGHT, is available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Alibris and many other booksellers as well as your local bookstore.

Betsy Sholl, Author of House of SparrowsOtherwise UnseeableRough Cradle and Late Psalm, says, “In The Broken Night Bruce Wasserman performs the poet’s task of breaking bread with the dead.  In the book’s elegant long poem, he traces his father’s life, from Abraham to Al, from anti-Semitism to dentistry on World War II’s front lines, then a full life back in mid-century America with all its pleasures and unrest.   Wasserman uses rich musical pacing to weave in different historical contexts, and thus creates for us a poem that is complex, beautiful and heartbreaking¾as is this entire book. It celebrates and grieves, and makes space for the reader to experience mystery and awe. “When good luck comes, the poet’s grandmother says in Yiddish, “pull up a chair for it.”  This book is our good luck, so pull up a chair and read.”

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Almost Here: THE BROKEN NIGHT

My latest poetry collection, THE BROKEN NIGHT, is scheduled to release from Finishing Line Press around July 15th.

Read what reviewers have said:

In The Broken Night Bruce Wasserman performs the poet’s task of breaking bread with the dead.  In the book’s elegant long poem, he traces his father’s life, from Abraham to Al, from anti-Semitism to dentistry on World War II’s front lines, then a full life back in mid-century America with all its pleasures and unrest.   Wasserman uses rich musical pacing to weave in different historical contexts, and thus creates for us a poem that is complex, beautiful and heartbreaking¾as is this entire book. It celebrates and grieves, and makes space for the reader to experience mystery and awe. “When good luck comes, the poet’s grandmother says in Yiddish, “pull up a chair for it.”  This book is our good luck, so pull up a chair and read. ~Betsy Sholl, Author of House of SparrowsOtherwise UnseeableRough Cradle and Late Psalm

Bruce Arlen Wasserman’s poems speculate into other times and other lives with sagacity and cleareyed…optimism, we’ll call it, though they recognize the difficulties and horrors, too. His is a hard-won faith earned in the trenches and on the fences, juxtaposing the bucolic and the pop cultural and the family historical toward beauty, reconciliation, and illumination. ~Patrick Madden, Author of DisparatesSublime Physick and Quotidiana

“The universe tilted a little to the left when I awoke,” Bruce Wasserman begins one poem, but in fact all these poems reveal the tilted universe of a unique and important vision. Here we follow the poet’s own past stretching from his father’s to his own everyday experiences made almost visionary yet firmly rooted in the real world and its language. In other words we see the personal become universal as we begin to participate in each turn of phrase which is also a turn to a new perception. “Life is a series / of patches, sometimes / held tight with glue / other times with stitches / faint traces, even / a single thread,” and the single thread here is a strong voice that is empathetic as it reaches across time in the tour de force poem, “A Loss of Terms” that climaxes this terrific book. From farm life to army life to the cosmos Wasserman takes us on a journey that is as unique as it is important.~Richard Jackson, Author of Where the Wind Comes From and Broken Horizons

THE BROKEN NIGHT will be available from booksellers nationwide as well as from online retailers. Or BUY IT NOW from Finishing Line Press.

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Review of Michael Wasson’s SWALLOWED LIGHT, Copper Canyon Press, by Bruce Arlen Wasserman at NY Journal of Books

Just posted is my review of Michael Wason’s groundbreaking poetry collection, Swallowed Light, released by Copper Canyon Press (Twitter: @CopperCanyonPrs, Instagram: Copper_Canyon_Press) on May 10th, 2022. Through his poems, Wasson has unearthed the buried bones of generations and brought their lives into the daylight. This is the work of a poet, and the importance of such work can never be underestimated. Read HERE on the NY Journal of Books site.

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New Book Release

Finishing Line Press Publishes

The Broken Night Poetry Chapbook

I am pleased to announce my poetry chapbook, The Broken Night, will be released by Finishing Line Press July 15, 2022.

Read what reviewers have said:

“In The Broken Night Bruce Wasserman performs the poet’s task of breaking bread with the dead.  In the book’s elegant long poem, he traces his father’s life, from Abraham to Al, from anti-Semitism to dentistry on World War II’s front lines, then a full life back in mid-century America with all its pleasures and unrest.   Wasserman uses rich musical pacing to weave in different historical contexts, and thus creates for us a poem that is complex, beautiful and heartbreaking—as is this entire book. It celebrates and grieves, and makes space for the reader to experience mystery and awe. “When good luck comes, the poet’s grandmother says in Yiddish, “pull up a chair for it.”  This book is our good luck, so pull up a chair and read.”

–Betsy Sholl, author of House of SparrowsOtherwise UnseeableRough Cradle and Late Psalm

“Bruce Arlen Wasserman’s poems speculate into other times and other lives with sagacity and cleareyed…optimism, we’ll call it, though they recognize the difficulties and horrors, too. His is a hard-won faith earned in the trenches and on the fences, juxtaposing the bucolic and the pop cultural and the family historical toward beauty, reconciliation, and illumination.”

–Patrick Madden, Author of DisparatesSublime Physick and Quotidiana

Click here-

The Broken Night, by Bruce Arlen Wasserman

$14.99 per copy plus $3.49 each for shipping

Finishing Line Press, P.O. Box 1626

Georgetown, KY 40324

www.finishinglinepress.com

Bookstore Orders: authorbookorders@finishinglinepress.com

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“Clay,” “66,” and “How to Lose a Mother” published by Cathexis

I am happy to share that my poems, “Clay,” “66” and “How to Lose a Mother,” complete with their audio tracks, have been published by Cathexis Northwest Press in their December, 2020 issue. Click this link to access the print and audio tracks of the poems, or use the link below:

https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/post/66-clay-how-to-lose-a-mother

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My Book Review: Shrapnel Maps, on NYJB website

My review of Shrapnel Maps, by Philip Metres, is now available to read on the New York Journal of Books website. Read it here

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/shrapnel-maps

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