Th is volume collects two previously unpublished works by Russell Buker. Both Old Burn, New Burn and Spontaneous Gambol overflow with Buker's love of words and usual connections.
Reading any poem by Russell Buker is taking a trip through an enchanted garden of our feelings. Each poem pulls at us as we recall times of our youth, sadness, great joy, or loneliness. He has a way of putting into words what we can only feel but unable to put to paper. His command of the English language, warms our heart and soul and makes the reader transported to a special place. To use the vernacular of the day, he is not a, "one trick pony." The reader will experience many emotions and be the better for having experienced them. Thank you, Russell. -Mary Ann Fitzpatrick About Russell Buker Russell Buker's poems have been published in the U.S. and in Canada: The Antigonish Review, The Windrow Anthology, The Cape Breton Collection, Pottersfield Press, Goose River Anthology, Portland Press Poetry Section, The Aurorean, Felt Sun, The Aputamkan Review River Muse, Page7Spine and Maine Writes Anthology. Russell has served on the board of editors and wrote book reviews for Off the Coast Review. Buker recently retired from Shead High School where he taught English and Creative Writing. For many years, he coached high school football, baseball, basketball and tennis.
Once again Russell Buker brings his concise powers of language and observation as he dreams with us while exploring his immediate landscape with its subtle sounds and the world beyond. And in this world beyond we also catch glimpses of ourselves and our condition. There are no answers here as we are still evolving, rather a similarity that is left to the reader to interpret if one is so inclined toward reflection in our fast-food zoom of a lifetime's constantly changing in its technology.
The poems in Final Mask are not about a particular theme, but rather, a journal/diary of man noticing how all aspects of his life coalesce into his reverence for his life and all those around him. "Someone once said that poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Russell Buker's poetry certainly delivers on both counts. I find he gives his audiences a splendor of interesting poetic language with an absoluteness or mere acknowledgement by being pragmatic about the unknown and its transitions that exist in life..." --Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr
A delightful collection of poems by award-winning poet Russell Buker. Read, enjoy and reflect. These poems will roll off the tongue, ring with clarity in the ear and sparkle in your memory. Russell Buker's poems delight by surprising. ... read them as adventures into unexpected juxtapositions of words and images evoking unanticipated thoughts and feelings, you will find yourself fascinated. -Gerald George, poet and critic. Russell Buker's poems are infused with his joie de vivre and wide-eyed awareness of his surroundings. The finesse of a tweed-jacketed academic meets the openness of the plaid-shirted Mainer. Phyllis McKinley, Canadian poet/writer, former Maine resident, living in Jacksonville, Florida! Russsell Buker's Deposition LXXII poems string out long on the page like mysterious counting beads. These poems, read together, make sounds that remind me of wind chimes on the porch corner or apple blossom petals drifting into a raspberry patch. Sharon Bray-writer, speaker, educator and author of When Words Heal.
Hovering as we are, this is a spectacularly strange time to be alive. Our world is changing quickly in many ways and one where the seductions of modern comfort, plus the illusion of being super-connected are not always the best medicine for our souls. In spite of this the poet's task is to bring his exceptional powers of observation and meld it into our narration. Russell Buker always dissolves his readers into vivid landscapes, close to his present home, enriching the experience with cogent references to history, geography, and philosophy where our vanishing points fade in or out, a blurring of wet rose petals on a stone walk is clarified by his mother asking him who he is, thereby offering a wide-eyed view that mixes dream or vision with the tantamount of the personal lyric in all of us.
Poetry at its best makes us think, makes us feel, makes us act upon words. Russell Buker's collected and new poetry in 9XXX: The Best of Myself offers all of that and more. Read each poem once, then read it again. Pause. Think. Feel. Read again. Walk outside or go about your day. The choice of words will astonish, the rhythms will energize and the stories within the poems will capture your imagination. Enjoy. About the author: Russell Buker recently retired from Shead High School where he taught English and Creative Writing. He has also coached for many years: football, baseball, basketball and tennis. Russell has had numerous poems accepted in many publications in the U.S. and in Canada including: The Antigonish Review, The Windrow Anthology, The Cape Breton Collection, Pottersfield Press, Goose River Anthology, Germ Magazine, Portland Press Poetry Section, The Aurorean, Felt Sun, The Aputamkan Review, Germ Magazine River Muse, Page & Spine, Maine Writes Anthology, Stoneboat, Crack the Spine, Axe Factory Press. Russell has also served on the board of editors and written book reviews for Off the Coast Review. What others say: Russell Buker has a distinctive voice, wry, capacious, and apt. From "the white now of winter" to " the bang-getty-bang of leaping summer," this book hums with charm, and leaps with good surprises. -Annie Finch, award-winning poet, and author This collection confounds and clears, the way clouds thin and revelation breaks through. From Latin to folk, these words demand and reward. -Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Poet Laureate, Bucksport, Maine
No one can truly guess how free I feel with the arrival of spring, really May, as if every- thing is no longer under- ground and runs, flops, flashes for all on the prejudiced mudl-
silacious dust blows across as our planet's cross winds grow the footless sculpted wings unseen by pilots and passengers strapped tightly against the initial thudding of takeoff or mind-change that had so many previous passengers looking out and muttering My God this looks so much like where we are going to die
The poems in Final Mask are not about a particular theme, but rather, a journal/diary of man noticing how all aspects of his life coalesce into his reverence for his life and all those around him. "Someone once said that poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Russell Buker's poetry certainly delivers on both counts. I find he gives his audiences a splendor of interesting poetic language with an absoluteness or mere acknowledgement by being pragmatic about the unknown and its transitions that exist in life..." --Maxwell C. Wheat, Jr
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