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The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News (a poetic description) The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News is about what is at the heart of the heroics (and heartache) of being an American. As in ""Your nephew saw it-the fatal-car-crash screen footage on the evening news. Complete with footage of the blood- and-brain-spatter, the rest of the mayhem you had caused. He ushered a son away from the TV. Offered a magazine. Mercy was the Playboy opened to distract your kid with breasts summoning like some kind of roadside signage."" The poems about deliverance and other less dire potentialities real and true. Point being if we dare hope, at least that act of faith will be built on a demanding pursuit of truth and beauty because, besides, you know the rest. The part John Keats reminds us of, where beauty is truth and truth, beauty. Always worth a look. --Roy Bentley

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Roy Bentley has published 11 books of poetry. He is the author of Walking with Eve in the Loved City, chosen by Billy Collins as finalist for the Miller Williams poetry prize; Starlight Taxi, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize; The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, chosen by John Gallaher as winner of the White Pine Poetry Prize. He's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council (6 times), and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Poems have appeared in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, december, Rattle, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, and Shenandoah.

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