Arguments For: New and Selected Poems
Moonstone Arts Center is pleased to announce the publication of Chris Bullard's Arguments For: New and Selected Poems.
Comic and disturbing deconstructions of normalcy and self, Bullard's poems grasp the reader with their curious insights and skewed but humane observations. The collection represents nearly twenty years of work and presents a "best of" from the poet's twelve books and chapbooks as well as many of his newest poems.
"Poet and writer Chris Bullard is blessed, or maybe tormented, with a brilliant and surrealistic muse. He graces us with a comedy of lost souls and a range of humorously morbid imaginings." — New Pages
"Christopher Bullard deftly exercises ironic language to take the reader to the big questions — fate and free will, history and morality, identity and desire — alighting at last upon universal insights spun from personal anecdotes." — Ernest Hilbert
"Bullard's characteristic mix of high and low culture and deadpan humor is on display here, but imbued with a distinct tenderness. His poetry goes to unexpected places, always with an awareness of the depredations of time, and the rarity of what abides." — Vasiliki Katsarou
"In Bullard's poems, we smell the rain, feel the flame, and walk with a cemetery man with a leaf blower on his back. You will be familiar with these surroundings, but you won't have read about them quite this way before." — Leah Maines
Moonstone Press, ISBN 978-1-970590-20-3, 202 pages, paper $22.00. Available exclusively from Moonstone Press.