Description
VANISHING POINTS, the eighth book of poems by Gary Metras, explores themes of change, alteration, diminishment, even death in society, family, and nature, along with the effects, the struggles, and the joys of love. These poems reinforce and extend what critic and poet Robert Peters wrote of an earlier book: "Metras is an authentic, unpretentious moving voice. These are poems to read aloud, linger over, and share with friends."—Connecticut Poetry Review
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Author Bio
Gary Metras is the author of eight books of poetry along with thirteen chapbooks. His White Storm (Presa Press, 2018) was selected as a Must Read title in the Massachusetts Books of the Year Program. His essays, reviews, and chiefly poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies since the 1970s, including America, American Life in Poetry, Boston Review of Books, California Quarterly, The Common, Connecticut Poetry Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Hawai'i Pacific Review, New England Watershed, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry East, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Antonio Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Tears in the Fence, (UK) and Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost (Iowa). A master letterpress printer, he founded and edited Adastra Press for forty years, releasing numerous fine press poetry limited editions. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where, in April 2018, he was appointed as the city's inaugural Poet Laureate. He is the author of CAPTIVE IN THE HERE (Cervena Barva Press, 2018).
Author City: SOMERVILLE, MA USA