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Bone, Gristle and Fat-a compilation of fifty one poems I bundled together in the summer and fall of 2023. Assembling these free verse poems was akin to eating from a massive and varied buffet. The choices were overwhelming at first; review 135 poems written over twelve years. Discovering six themes within this body of work. From that initial number of poems I took 70 and then finally the 51 included in this book. All of these poems were critiqued, many were read aloud to audiences in Richmond, Syracuse, Tucson and Ireland. After two comprehensive edits what was left-Bone, Gristle and Fat.

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Brian King writes from his experiences as a husband, father, brother, friend, student, critic, Fortune 500 computer engineer, consultant, technologist, hitchhiker, adventurer, painter, guitar player and parishioner. With a B.A. in Mathematics from Albany University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University he brings a unique background to poetry. Raised in Syracuse, New York he eventually moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1982. His parents had a library with a complete set of Shakespeare, poetry anthologies, history and novels by Faulkner, Cheever and Updike. He was exposed to the articles in The New Yorker and Newsweek. As an undergraduate the books outside of required texts were outnumbered by those of Vonnegut, Wolfe, Tolkien, Updike, Tom Robbins and other contemporary authors. He had two decades of writing business proposals and technical documents before writing his first poem. After reading Spiritual Pilgrims-Carl Jung and Teresa of Avila he sensed a deeper need to write what he sensed and felt in the form of short poems. That led to joining the poetry organization River City Poets of Richmond, participating in critiques and public readings. After surveying one hundred and thirty poems he chose and edited fifty-one for the collection titled-Bone, Gristle and Fat.

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