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MARRIAGE: A HISTORY by Bruce Parker

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In poignant lyric poems Bruce Parker traces the emotional terrain of four marriages from the ache of loss—we yearned to go with you/not left behind—to the unexpected grace of new intimacy—Look how I swim and dart beneath your skin…/a school of small silver passions teeming, teeming. Parker’s voice is steady, expressing his devotion and reverence for the ordinary: Because in the long sleep to come/there will be no dreams/I touch you now. As well as a personal record, Marriage: A History is a universal meditation on what it means to love.

–Leah Stenson, author of The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems and Life Revised.

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MARRIAGE: A HISTORY

by Bruce Parker

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Widowed, divorced, widowed again, yet in age finding love once more, the author of Marriage: A History explores loss, grief, struggle, and love in lyrics that are by turns penetrating and tender. #poetry #love #loss #memory #life #death

Bruce Parker holds an MA in Secondary Education from the University of New Mexico. His work appears in The Field Guide, Wild Roof, Cerasus (UK), The Brussels Review (Belgium), Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Chapbooks: Ramadan in Summer, (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Tears for Things. (Plan B Press, 2024).