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Renaming the Planets featured on The Writer's Almanac (read by Garrison Keillor)
Men of His Generationpublished in Boston Literary Magazine
Choosing Bowls published in Kentucky Review
Night's Thief published in Red River Review
IN THE NEWS
A Warped View of Life (article about the artist whose work is featured on the cover)
New Releases by Hampton Roads Authors
The Autobiography of Mr. Bill Glose, by Chris Rice Cooper
Bill Glose Wins Daily Press Poetry Contest
"Personal Geography is a lyrical rumination of the author�s life so far, including poems from childhood days on military bases, wartime experiences in Iraq, and work in factories. The book�s three sections arrange life as if occurring in a single week: �Rainy Monday� doused with melancholy, �Date Night� blooming with passion, and �Weekends at the Coffeehouse� reposing in artful reflection. Filled in equal parts with intellectual curiosity, whimsy, and desire, Bill Glose�s poems will leave readers asking questions about their own personal journies."
Publisher's note from David Robert Books
�In his third collection Bill Glose self-describes his new book as a �Universe condensed to a beating/ heart inside a beating heart.� Thereby Personal Geography recreates one person�s history in a voice that ramifies to the universal. With a deft pen, the poet exhumes the past�childhood�s lessons, a soldier�s hardened heart, early and late love�in apt descriptions rife with contrast and paradox. Innocence and experience, hope and cynicism are equally performed in these imagery rich, artfully crafted poems, yet in the closing section Glose comes full circle, able to discard �the freight of war� and �let [his] heart be bared.��
Jane Ellen Glasser
author of six books of poetry including Light Persists, which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.
�Bill Glose�s images of war are immediately riveting��rotor wash and sand filling throats,� the endless haunting by �shadowy forms� of prisoners �Sitting cross-legged behind triple strands of concertina��but this volume of personal exploration opens many other vistas, some fanciful, others lonely, but all honest and often tender. And then there is the satisfaction of sudden leaps and disarming simplicity. �Volume / is on vacation,� declares the exuberant �Snow Days.� More somberly, the emotionally devastating �Never on Leap Year� longs for �an invisible day� every year when �no one dies / anywhere / on the planet.��
Dr. Jay Paul
director of the Honors Program at Christopher Newport University and author of Going Home in Flood Time and The Latest Monument.
�Personal Geography is not a war story, but the pain and reality of combat in the hands of such a skilled writer as Bill Glose cannot be ignored. He deftly parallels recovering from combat with recovering from failed love affairs. If all men shared the sentiments expressed in �Every Woman Deserves a Poem,� what a different world it would be. Glose writes with passion, clarity, and honesty; his work is accessible to all.�
Edward W. Lull
Executive Director and former President of The Poetry Society of Virginia and author of several books of poetry and a "how to" book titled Creating Form Poetry
�Your poems are wonderful. Also shattering, and troubling, and edifying. Thank God for poetry.�
Anita Harrell, Branch/Web Manager, Phoebus Branch Library, Hampton, VA