Testing the Elements

by Bruce Meyer

Bruce Meyer’s forté is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channeling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that sustains and endangers humankind. His poems are daring and artistically defying, composed with gravitas, powerful mindfulness, and reverence. His voice is mutable, each stanza like a window onto a multidimensionality that opens itself to both complexity and clarity. Testing the Elements touches on themes such as bullying, growing up, maturity, age, love, and nature; it is poetry that is memorable and speaks to the human spirit about what it means to live and endure in the world.

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2014

About the author

Dr. Bruce Meyer is an author of more than 45 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism, scholarship, and pedagogy, and is a professor of English at Georgian College.

Reviews

[Linda Laforge · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoy this lovely book of poetry. Mr. Meyer uses words so eloquently and with tender precision. He paints a new picture, a new vision, with depth and emotional expression with every poem.

I have been leaving this one on my coffee table so that I can pick it up and read or re-read a poem when I need something to modify my mood.

I highly recommend this and any of Bruce Meyer's other books if you are a fan of poetry. He does not disapoint.

[Lynn Tait · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely work. Favorites: The Remains of Bidwell; The Frogs; Sunrise on the St Lawrence.