{"id":7716,"date":"2021-02-27T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2021-02-27T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:41:35","slug":"measures-by-b-l-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=7716","title":{"rendered":"Measures by B. L. Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Luminous and piercing\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyrical and reflective, award-winning Bruce\u2019s latest, a collection of poems, micropoetry, and American haiku, offers a litany of ruminations on nature, love, and self. \u201cFull Moon at Albion River\u201d is a meditation on the wonders of nature. With her knack for creating intricate emotional textures, Bruce infuses mourning and grief with tangible chaos of today\u2019s pandemic-ridden, calamitous world in \u201cLocust,\u201d as she visualizes the bleak space that remains after the death of a beloved: \u201cIn the days after\/ you took your own life\/ it rained without end\/ as though, too, \/ the world mourned. \/ And it did. \/ The floodwater rose, \/ and the earth was being buried\/ under feet and feet of water, \/ and then it was burning.\u201d Bruce\u2019s sharp observations makes \u201cRhythm\u201d intimate and arresting.  She finds courage, wonder, wisdom, and cheer in nature in \u201cChannel,\u201d \u201cNorth\u201d and \u201cAlpine Poems.\u201d Readers seeking meditations on nature, life, love, and spiritual renewal won\u2019t be able to put this perceptive, deeply engrossing read. This is a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By B. L. Bruce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Swift Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date February 25, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1-7357074-0-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: The review was initially published on our website on February 10, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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