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 Sparrows, Otherwise Unseeable, Rough 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 Disparates, Sublime Physick and Quotidiana
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
Bookstore Orders: authorbookorders@finishinglinepress.com
