A collective study of the lives and works of the nine British poets who composed the Movement of the 1950s: Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, D.J. Enright, Robert Conquest, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, and John Holloway. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s (Twayne's English Authors Series)

Literature & Fiction

Bradley, Jerry

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

Bradley writes poems about life’s emotional explosions and the psychic craters they leave behind. They are what good poems are supposed to be—emergency poems.

Simple Versions of Disaster (Texas Poets Series; 3 Texas A and M University Military)

United States

University of North Texas Press

Original poetry by an important contemporary poet.

The Importance of Elsewhere

Poetry

Ink Brush Press

These are quiet, intimate, witty conversational poems addressing how the human heart forgets itself under personal injury and the stinging justice of misery, and then, in the poignancy of remembering itself, is reborn again, unyielding, ready for "another waltz at the window, one more dance." If pain is "unresurrected" truth, then healing is "coming back to familiar spots to remember" a world we forgot existed or that we never even expected. Read this book and let your heart be healed.

Crownfeathers and Effigies

Lamar University Press

Rapunzel's Parrot

Religion & Spirituality

Angelina River Press

In these tightly crafted poems, Jerry Bradley measures his life and discovers cause for both rejoicing and tears. Finding wonder in unexpected and unlikely places -- a funny sign on a sewage truck, a work detail in Louisiana, the act of gutting a fish -- he pulls metaphoric rabbits out of hats to transform the ordinary into the remarkable. A sense of urgency underlies Bradley's surface wit as he confronts the implacable realities of aging, time, and mortality. Whether he's assessing the ravages of Hurricane Harvey, Paul McCartney's guitar, Robert Frost's elegance, or the fallout from love lost and found, Bradley brings to the page an ultimate honesty that will leave his readers on their feet cheering "Author! Author!" Honor is due. Carol Reposa, 2018 Texas Poet Laureate, author of Underground Musicians Truly a stunning book. Bradley risks wading into the disastrous flooding of Hurricane Harvey described as "fickle as a two-dollar knife," and the result is that the reader floats off on his humor. The book is a rare achievement wedding the deep hurt of disaster with our ability to cobble together a vision in a bar where "Even the barmaid is as fresh as a fossil." He brings to us the vitality to get up the next day for a drink or to keep swimming. Bradley's easy wit is offered with intelligence and insight into the human condition: "what counts most is what we learn / after we already know everything else." Walter Bargen, first Poet Laureate of Missouri, author of Until Next Time

Collapsing into Possibility

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