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Examined Life EPIGRAMS Scienter Press Louisville, KY ©2006 by Bruce Bennett 58 couplets that provide varying perspectives on a life-in-progress. |
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Coyote's Interlude With Little Miss Darling FootHills Publishing Bath, NY ©2006 by Bruce Bennett A sequence of twelve poems. Little Miss Darling is under Coyote's skin, and he knows he is not himself. He recognizes he must become Coyote again, and confront her. "No girl makes a fool/ out of Coyote!".... |
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Will Nobody Stop The Poet? The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2006 by Bruce Bennett 2006. A Clandestine Press April Fools edition. 14 poems and fables. |
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Late Night Music The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2005 by Bruce Bennett A Clandestine Press April Fools edition. 10 limericks. |
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More Last Words The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2005 by Bruce Bennett 50 additional comic epitaphs. |
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Web-Watching At Hand Poetry Chapbook Series, No. 10 Bright Hill Press Treadwell, NY ©2005 by Bruce Bennett Winner of the 2004 Bright Hill Press Chapbook Competition; published April 2005. 32 pages. Poet and Editor Peter Makuck (TAR RIVER POETRY) wrote of WEB-WATCHING: "At the heart of Bruce Bennett's work is wonder of vision and rigor of craft..." |
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Eternal Recurrence and the Big Bang The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY 8 short poems printed in book form on a single, folded sheet of paper. |
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Grief and Love FootHills Publishing Kanona, NY ©2004 by Bruce Bennett 21 poems. "GRIEF AND LOVE deals with irrevocable loss, but in a context of abiding love. Nor is all sorrow and suffering. There is courage, steadfastness, and humor..." |
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Paintbrush Vol XXX Founder & Editor: Ben Bennani Associate Editor: Catherine Warner Truman State University Kirksville, MO ©2004 by Paintbrush Subtitled "The World Of Bruce Bennett," this issue of the magazine is entirely devoted to Bruce Bennett's work... |
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Truly Vile The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2004 by Bruce Bennett A Clandestine Press April Fools edition. 5 pretty outrageous poems. |
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Were I To Tell You Wells College Press Aurora, NY 2004 6 poems accompanied with facing drawings by Wells College Professor of Art William Roberts. This collaboration was published in honor of Professor Roberts's 30 years at Wells. "WERE I TO TELL YOU was handset in Perpetua types and printed in a limited edition of 150 copies at the Wells College Press, September 2001." |
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The Deserted Campus The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY poems ©2003 by Bruce Bennett drawings ©2003 by David Grossvogel 34 satirical poems in various forms about academic life, with accompanying (hilarious) cartoons by Cornell Professor Emeritus, David Grossvogel. |
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Funny Signals FootHills Publishing Kanona, NY ©2003 by Bruce Bennett 71 pages. Fables and poems. "Not long ago, leafing through a collection of Herblock cartoons from the 1980's, I was struck by how little appears to have changed politically..." |
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"Her Poetry Manuscript...Is Currently Circulating." The Wells College Press April 1994 The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2003 by Bruce Bennett & The Clandestine Press 13 couplets. "First published at the Wells College Press April 1994 as a type specimen book. Four poems have been added to this November 2003 edition." |
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Missing Privately Printed 2003 15 poems, including a sonnet, that deal with a suicide and its aftermath. |
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Bruce Bennett: Greatest Hits 1962-2000 Greatest Hits Series #32 Pudding House Publications Johnstown, OH ©2001 by Bruce Bennett Bruce Bennett's own selection of twelve of his favorite poems, with his six page Introduction: "The PrIvate Life of Some Poems." |
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Hey, Diddle Diddle FootHills Publishing Kanona, NY ©2001 by Bruce Bennett 23 prose and rhymed "Fables of Love and Sex." "HEY, DIDDLE DIDDLE is a selection from one section of my ongoing manuscript, ANIMAL RITES. ANIMAL RITES consists of prose and rhyming fables that reflect, and reflect on, the gamut of human behavior..." |
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Separations The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2001 by Bruce Bennett 7 sonnets dealing with one or another kind of separation. |
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Last Words The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©2000 by Bruce Bennett 62 comic epitaphs. |
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Ah, Firenze! Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©1999 by Bruce Bennett 8 poems about art and life in Florence. |
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Garretman FootHills Publishing Bath, NY ©1999 by Bruce Bennett A 10 poem sequence. "Hearthstone effects escape through Garretman. Garretman dreams of what never could be. The two grapple and contend, except when one is absent; then, the other is inconsolable..." |
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Navigating the Distances Orchises Press Washington ©1999 by Bruce Bennett Hard-bound; 178 pages. This collection of New and Selected Poems, cited by BOOKLIST as "one of the top ten poetry books of 1999," contains the complete, or nearly complete, texts of three books... |
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Forays The Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©1998 by Bruce Bennett 18 quatrains on various psychological and philosophical subjects forming a loose sequence. |
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Maneuvers Clandestine Press Ithaca, NY ©1998 by Bruce Bennett 27 8-line poems. |
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It's Hard to Get the Angle Right GreenTower Press Maryville, MO ©1997 by Bruce Bennett 23 villanelles. James Scott wrote in a 2001 review on Amazon: "Great combination of wit, impassioned poetics, irony, cogent reasoning, mastery of fixed form and sheer entertainment value." |
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Bare Bones Robert L. Barth Edgewood, KY ©1995 Bruce Bennett 50 couplets on personal, psychological, and philosophical subjects joined together in a loose sequence. |
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Taking Off Orchises Press Washington ©1992 by Bruce Bennett 84 pages. Mainly light verse, including numerous parodies of poets from Wyatt to English and American contemporaries. Bruce Bennett wrote: "TAKING OFF is a personal anthology, with the emphasis on the personal. For me, parody is as much an act of affection as of criticism, though it may be that as well... |
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I Never Danced with Mary Beth FootHills Publishing Bath, NY ©1991 by Bruce Bennett 30 poems and a short story. "I NEVER DANCED WITH MARY BETH is about an image, and the pursuit of that image, and the consequences of that pursuit..." |
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The Garden & Other Abridged Versions Bellflower Press Chagrin Falls, OH ©1990 by Bruce Bennett 8 brief parodies, printed letterpress by Louise Wazbinski. |
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To Be A Heron FootHills Publishing Bath, NY ©1989 by Bruce Bennett 29 satirical poems, prose poems, and fables, principally on political subjects. |
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Not Wanting to Write Like Everyone Else State Street Press Brockport, NY ©1987 by Bruce Bennett 28 poems in a variety of forms about poetry, poetic forms, the creative process, and the writing life. Some sample titles are: "Sort Of A Sestina," "How To Construct A Sonnet," and "A Strain Of Haiku." There are also a number of short prose poems... |
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Straw Into Gold Cleveland State University Poetry Center Cleveland, OH ©1984 by Bruce Bennett 57 pages. Bruce Bennett's first full-length book. It includes COYOTE PAYS A CALL, with 3 new Coyote poems, most of THE STRANGE ANIMAL, and many new poems, short prose poems, and fables. |
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The Strange Animal State Street Press Chapbooks Rochester, NY ©1981 by Bruce Bennett 13 prose fables and retellings, most of which are reprinted in STRAW INTO GOLD. This was among the first of founder and editor Judith Kitchen's State Street Press Chapbooks. |
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Coyote Pays A Call Bits Press Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH ©1980 by Bits Press Bruce Bennett's first chapbook, a sequence of five Coyote poems on separate cards in a folding wrapper, beautifully printed by Robert Wallace at Bits Press. |
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