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Bruce Arlen Wasserman

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Poetry, Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Mark Cox, Richard Jackson, Robert Vivian, Betsy Sholl

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Bruce Arlen Wasserman assembled his first poetry manuscript with a typewriter on the kitchen table when he was seventeen. “The free verse of that work used rhythm to portray a harsh-edged city contrasted with the soft, lush features of natural elements,” he says. As a young man, he farmed and worked as a blacksmith in northern Minnesota, building his own blacksmith shop from the ground up using sawmill slabs and discarded poles. He drove a tractor-trailer in college, edited professional journals, wrote as a freelance journalist and is a dentist. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a semi-finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers, a semi-finalist for the Proverse Prize and won the Anna Davidson Rosenberg 2019 Poetr ...more

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message 1: by Ivan

Feb 27, 2012 12:41PM

Hi, my new friend! Thank you for friend request! Nice page, good info! Will be glad to share and exchange some thoughts, recommendations, etc in the future! Best wishes! Let the wonderful noise of the sea always sounds in your ears! (a greeting of the water dragons' hunters - my Tale Of The Rock Pieces).
Never shave your beard and moustache, BTW! You must be very proud wearing them, that's the appearance of the Mountaineers, the only people who could become and train wizards in antiquity...:). Letb this short poem of mine be a gift for you:

Let's watch the moon, let's meet the sun!
Let's hear soon the way the Deed was done!
Let's listen to the music the shiny crystals played,
let's welcome crowds of creatures good and great... from my The Opposite Of Magic.

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