Indeed! I took a long break from blogging and poetry talk (and the W@1 salon) after the pandemic to concentrate on writing and making music. Let me introduce you to one of the products of that hiatus: The Weather in Bluffton, Ind.
It's a 2024 book, launched in June, of prose poems and what you can think of as "lyric fictions." In its 65 poems you'll encounter a loneliness that intrudes at the dinner table; a billboard that speaks (in Portuguese) to a busy executive; Popeye in Crete; a sex robot with good table manners; a hole in a man's pocket that leads to Eternity; a blue day, a brown town, a grey neighborhood; and of course, the weather in (mythical) Bluffton, Ind. where the month of February is subject to a permanent recall by the Campaign to Eliminate Winter.
These poems explore many themes of small town/medium city life: community, isolation, gossip, routine, outsiders, and for sure, life, death, the weight of the past.
Slender Book Press is a private publisher devoted to small and art books in short, high-quality print runs.
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The Weather in Bluffton, Ind., is available in hardcopy ($15 paperback only) or digital format ($7).
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