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
Books
If Randolph Bridgeman's poetry were to take a scrub brush to its fingernails, it still wouldn't be fit for the dinner table because of that insubordinate attitude. It's poetry that flings used mortor oil, bulldog slobber, and raw sentiments that would make your delicate realitives neatly pressed shirts go soppy at the pits.
Rocky Jones -- Poet, Musician and Producer of the Poet Experience Reading Series ,
Annapolis Maryland
The Odd Testament, like Randolph Bridgeman's previous efforts South of Everywhere and Mechanic on Duty, is an all-expense-paid journey into the heart of an America populated by loners and losers, bullies and the broken-hearted, and we are every bit the richer for the ride. A weird and beautiful lesson in history and theology, The Odd Testament is, simply put, grand poetry-innocent and hard, human, often profane, and above all honest. Bridgeman's genious is in his ability to make these whackos breathe on every page, and in spite of ourselves we love them all.
Reading Bridgeman is like chewing honeyed sand. Bridgeman [like in his poem history of a cock hound] is one magnificent bastard indeed.
Cliff Lynn -- Poet and Co-producer of the Evil Grin Reading Series
Annapolis Maryland