Testing the Elements
Published on 5. September 2018
103 pages
978-1-55096-457-8 (ISBN)
Description
Bruce Meyer's forte is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channeling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that sustains and endangers humankind. His poems are daring and artistically defying, composed with gravitas, powerful mindfulness, and reverence. His voice is mutable, each stanza like a window onto a multidimensionality that opens itself to both complexity and clarity. Testing the Elements touches on themes such as bullying, growing up, maturity, age, love, and nature; it is poetry that is memorable and speaks to the human spirit about what it means to live and endure in the world.
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Bruce Meyer has authored 37 books of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, literary journalism, and pedagogy. The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books was a national bestseller, and his broadcasts on the Great Books and Poetry Is Life and Vice Versa with Michael Enright remain the CBC's bestselling spoken word CD series. He is professor of English at Georgian College in Barrie where he teaches in the Laurentian University BA Program, and at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie. He lives in Barrie, Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- TESTING THE ELEMENTS
- Dawn
- Contents
- PROLOGUE
- Earth
- Forage Caps
- On the Exhumation of Neruda's Body
- Myth
- Clean Fill
- Berczy Park
- The Remains of Bidwell
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Brown Shoes
- Fox in the Fallen Snow
- Water
- What's Left of Nineveh
- Horses
- The Narrows
- Musée de Bon Chance
- Loonie
- R.M.S. Titanic
- Victoria Square
- The Snowmen
- The Frogs
- Fire
- Serendipity
- A Bed in Paris
- Sunrise on the St. Lawrence
- Volta
- Campagna
- The Cayuga
- Sincere
- The Devil's Paintbrush
- The Lovely Fallen Angels
- Air
- Prom Night
- Underwood
- The Prisoner Dreams
- The Sweetness
- Cezanne's Card Players
- Syllabub
- A Lifetime
- The Modern American Poem
- Writing on Your Back
- The Movie Being Filmed Across the Street from My Hotel Window
- On the Judgement of Dogs
- Dreaming of Joe Weider (1920-2013)
- In Defence of Narrators
- Homage to Charles Darwin
- Mammoth Skull, Simcoe County Museum
- Superstitions
- Matrimony
- The Movie Being Filmed Across the Street from My Hotel Window
- Moonlight on Sleepers
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- BRUCE MEYER BOOKS WITH EXILE EDITIONS
