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Peripheral Vision
Small Poetry Press
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"These poems are minimal to the eye only. The poet's method is to focus on the character of an elemental object until he invests it with associations that enlarge it, you might say historize it. . . . Guernsey is a spook, warming his hands over a spit-stove."
    — Vernon Young, The Hudson Review

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The Lost Brigade
Water Press and Media
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"The poems in this fine collection sing of soldiers who return from the wars, stricken revenants from Grant to the poet's father. Bruce Guernsey has given us an Odyssey in small, lyric and elegiac, a lonely, haunted and haunting, moving book forever homeward bound."
    — Robert Fagles

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January Thaw
Penyeach Press (first published by the University of Pittsburgh Press)
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"Choosing strong words, not wasting any, Bruce Guernsey has achieved a book of poems wholly and unflaggingly readable. . . . Guernsey's work displays much more than just technique: warmth, humor, and a memorable way with metaphor. I'll take bets that January Thaw will be among the best books of its year, and many years to come."
    — X.J. Kennedy

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