Blue: Poems

by Dave Morrison

Hailed as 'a hearty weed in the garden of American poetry', Morrison has published fifteen collections of poetry, and his poems have been featured in literary magazines and anthologies, as well as Writer's Almanac, Take Heart, and Poems from Here."Dave Morrison's poems are direct and clever in expression, vivid in image, explicit in emotion, and overflowing with perceptive awe for the everyday world and his own bewildering emotions. The universality of his sensibilities is something a writer either has or doesn't have. It's nothing you can learn in a workshop. Blue has it, again." Dana Wilde, Kenebec Journal "With Blue, Dave Morrison deals out an entire array of moods, like a fanned hand of cards, offering intriguing insight into different lives, including the poet's own."Kristen Lindquist, author of Tourists in the Known World Poet and editor Alive Persons says "There is no voice quite like his. What shines in every poem is musical sound and rhythm, grittiness, reality, humor, and the rare ability to tackle serious subjects without taking himself too seriously." Dave lives on the coast of Maine.

72 pages, Paperback

Published February 4, 2020

About the author

Hailed as 'A hearty weed in the garden of American poetry' Dave Morrison's poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, and featured on Writer’s Almanac, Take Heart, and Poems from Here. Morrison has published fourteen books of poetry including Clubland (poems about rock & roll bars in verse and meter, Fighting Cock Press 2011) and Cancer Poems (JukeBooks 2015), plus a CD (Poetry Rocks - Mishara Music). After years of playing guitar in rock & roll bars in Boston and NYC, Dave currently resides in coastal Maine with his wife Susan. His fourteenth book is Refuge (JukeBooks 2019)