Book Details

by Jack Myers, author of OneOnOne

Like Tiger Woods teeing off, Bruce Spang's TO THE PROMISED LAND GROCERY is a line drive on the frozen rope of reveries and meditations over sex, gender, identity and morality. He brings to light signal American rites of initiation and passage that have been experienced from both gay and straight perspectives. Plain-speaking, smart, and incisive, these poems look hard reality in the face and ask it back "How do you like it ?"

by Natasha Saje, author of Bend

These often discursive poems access the mind of a child in the Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, a child who has trouble learning to read, but who uses that trouble to question what he is learning. This interrogation continues in the mind of an adult who questions politics, sexual orientation, race and faith. Bruce Spang includes important subjects in poems that are remarkably easy to read, and makes discursiveness a strength. With great attention to detail, particularly to compulsions of the human body, many of these poems work insidiously, tricking readers into entering a new consciousness, and once there, not letting them go.