Oceans,
Poems by Bruce Meyer
Life is a long voyage
on rough seas, or so the story goes. The oceans are deep and they can
drown an individual – the anxieties of modern offices, the death-trap
caverns of boardrooms, the rhythmic streets that can lull a mind into
forgetting what is most meaningful to a human being. Oceans,
Bruce Meyer’s sixth collection, examines what it is to live through
the trials and tribulations of personal odysseys. Meyer tells the stories
of many voyagers, all coming together in one final identity. From the
loneliness of George Seurat on the beach at Honfleur to the universal
story of an ancient mariner struggling against the waves to return to
what he loves best, this collection tells the story of what it means to
be reborn from the waves.
Sample Poems by Bruce Meyer
“Meyer can take us to his (and our) darkest moment without abandoning
us there.”
—The
Seattle Times
Bruce Meyer is author of 22 textbooks, poetry and fiction collections
and anthologies including The Golden
Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books, the poetry
collections The Open Room, Radio Silence,
The Presence, Anywhere and The Spirit Bride. With Barry Callaghan he
co-edited We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian
Poetry and Prose of the First World War and The Selected Poems of Frank Prewett. With
Jonathan Barron he co-edited the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume
on The New Formalists. The radio broadcasts on The Great Books with Michael
Enright have been heard nationally and internationally, and he is a frequent
panelist on TV Ontario. His poetry has won numerous prizes including the
Ruth Cable Memorial Award, the E.J. Pratt Gold Medal and Prize for Poetry,
and the Alta Lind Cook Award for Writing. He has been Visiting Writer
at the University of Texas and the University of Southern Mississippi,
is Artistic Director of the Leacock Summer Literary Festival in Orillia,
Ontario, and has taught at various Canadian and American universities.
He lives in Toronto and is a professor of English at the Laurentian University
Program at Georgian College in Barrie and in the St. Michael’s College
Continuing Education Program at the University of Toronto.
ISBN 1932339663, 80 pages, $17.00