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| Rainstorm Over the Alphabet: Poems, 1990-2000 |
| by Bill Tremblay |
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| Also by Bill Tremblay and published by Lynx House Press: |
| Home Front |
Poetry
ISBN: 0-89924-110-7
Paper: $13.95 |
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Bill Tremblay is an unusual poet in this time. People are real to him. I find he has a fantastic grasp of the way human psyches, especially those in distress, move, and he does not encourage the pale aesthetic stuff...but writes about the most important experiences
-Robert Bly
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| Bill Tremblay has six books of poetry, among them Crying in the Cheap Seats, Duhamel, and most recently Rainstorm Over the Alphabet. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing an Colorado State University, and is the recipiant of the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor Award as well as awards from the NEA, the NEH, the Fulbright Commission, Yaddo, Pushcart, and inclusion in the anthology Best American Poetry 2003. |
Home Front
"[Tremblay's] personal revelations, sacrificing machismo to honesty, make Home Front a persuasive postwar 'work of a man who loves his life...enough to change it."
-Booklist
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| See another book by Bill Tremblay, Shooting Script: Door of Fire |
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Praise for Bill Tremblay
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Bill Tremblay's poems are committed to life. That's not easy, not even particularly common of poetry in the United States now. The verse is at once socially engaged and well-crafted. Tremblay looks at history and moment, tangles with it all, struggles from it, and deals it to us in the poem
-Margaret Randall
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The harsh, complex clarity and paradoxically tender compassion of this book make an extraordinary power for the dimensions of its hero, Duhamel. No work of recent poetry has entered such ground at all. Bill Tremblay offers a unique testament to a world whose brutal fragility has found no other way to speak.
-Robert Creeley, on Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada |
| Bill Tremblay's poems are, at their best, fresh measures of a man who is most alive in moments of crisis and confrontation. His poems come at the reader hip and shoulder, ecstasy by catastropher, and come prepared to turn even humiliation into a triumph of sorts, sometimes by sheer force of presence. |
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