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John Muro's recent collection, A Bountiful Silence & Other Poems, captivates the reader with its lyrical expressions and odes to nature. Muro employs a tight economy of language in every line, allowing sensory imagery to dazzle evocatively on the page, with lines like ""the rupture of fragrance from / each swollen blossom that astonishes / and agitates the soul"" in his poem titled ""Becoming,"" and in ""Something More Than Winter (Weighs Upon Me)"" he offers a stunning visual, ""leaves of Klimt gold flutter like torches / set upon the crowns of beech."" Other poems are introspective and self-reflective such as ""Midsummer""...and in ""A Rural County in Connecticut"" he allows the reader to ponder how regional location affects deeply the poet's multi-faceted and rich lens on art, emotions, family, life, memories, music and nature. A marvelous collection! -Sean Frederick Forbes, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, author, Providencia: A Book of Poems John Muro's poetry...is elegant, refined, and steeped in tradition, but it is also surprising and accessible. Excellent poetry is the work of a refined and sensitive artist. John is all of that and more. Read everything he writes. -David W. Berner, award-winning author, Daylight Saving Time Into a world of too much noise and busyness, John Muro has given us a book of moments in which stillness and attention hush the mind and open the heart, making words themselves take one step closer to a silence that offers comfort and healing. -Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, 2019-2022

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