Randolph Bridgeman
If you think of poetry as relegated to either Valentine's Day greeting cards or to literature class textbooks understandable only to literature professors, then you haven't read a Bridgeman Poem. His poems are for and about the everyman -- around us and in us, whether we acknowledge that everyman or not.
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Randolph Bridgeman's fifth book
"The Not So Happy Hour Poems" forthcoming in the Fall of 2024
About
If you think of poetry as relegated to either Valentine's Day greeting cards or to literature class textbooks understandable only to literature professors, then you haven't read a Bridgeman Poem. His poems are for and about the everyman -- around us and in us, whether we acknowledge that everyman or not.
He writes of the people from whom we turn away, superior in the knowledge that we are not like them: the child with OCD, the homeless man living in McDonald's, the depressed man shooting his ex-lover's Beanie Babies. And he writes of the people we sometimes become and probably don't admit to being: the spectator watching one dog hump another, the teen driven to amoral behavior by lust, the person who loses everything "because this was just one more/thing in a long list of shit/that he'd done.
