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A Bountiful Silence: & Other Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639809844
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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