Kevin Bezner's The Hungry Walker masterfully intertwines history, memory, and religion with his search for identity as a second generation American. With daring intelligence, his lyrical narratives, rich prose poems, and subtle lyrics offer readers a profound exploration of the American experience by an accomplished poet of remarkable grace and range.
Kevin Bezner is the author of three previous collections of poetry, Particularities,
Wherever, and The Tools of Ignorance. He is also co-editor with
Kevin Walzer of The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines.
Dr. Bezner earned degrees from Roger Williams University, the University of
Maryland, and Ohio University. After a career as a reporter for daily newspapers
in Florida, Dr. Bezner taught writing and humanities at a number of colleges
and universities. He now works for a major bank.
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"The poetry of Kevin Bezner is marked by a demonstrable flair for lyrical prose narrative as he explores his identity and experience as a second generation American." |
$14.00, 84 pages, ISBN: 0-9700980-1-4
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Particularities
Particularities, a book-length poem, opens in a schoolyard of the early 1960s and ends with a surreal walking-away from a college in the 1990s. Covering both personal and national history, the poem explores the author's days at a Catholic orphanage school; his growing up in Virginia and Massachusetts during the 1960s; his coming of age in the 1970s; and a consideration of how the paths one takes in life can intersect. Particularities recalls the originality of Williams's Paterson and Lowell's Life Studies.
$10.00, 58 pages, ISBN: 0-9700980-0-6
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Wherever
"A book of penetrating elegance which allows the reader to share a keen-eyed poet's solitude as he chronicles his journey." --Colette Inez
$12.00, 49 pages, ISBN: 0-9633551-7-1
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The Tools of Ignorance
"For connoisseurs of the raw style, he is a find." --Harvard Review
$10.00, 61 pages, ISBN: 0-9633551-3-9
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