| A beautiful sadness pervades Charles Schuler's photographs and echoes in the stark honesty of the poet's words. When Bernie Bruster writes that a "long road gleams with icy threat,/ like life", she speaks for everyone who has seen the excitement, danger and possibility the future holds. Bernie takes the reader to the "harsh and cutting edges of reality" with simple language as unadorned as the "bouquet of little girls" who are pictured in "Posed". This brief volume of understated pictures and stunning poems offers the perfect melding of the works of two excellent artists.
Bill Anderson Lake Cherokee, Texas |
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