Walter Bruno
With a background in theater and cinema, Walter Bruno writes about arts, performance, communications, politics, and the follies of identity, mostly from a contrarian perspective. An admirer of early modernism, he favors Beckett, Stein, Milosz, Szymborska, Balzac, G B Shaw, McLuhan and Harold Bloom. Bruno's work includes poetry, essays, short stories and a novella. While his poetry is mostly lyrical, he occasionally has a hard edge and doesn't play it safe.
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A Head in Bad Times
Non-Fiction, Commentary
Provocative shorter essays on politics, the campus, identity, discourse, art, performance, and society. These essays join 42 reviews of major and minor films, in both the popular and art-film repertories, with a stress on formalism and how criticism can be distanced from personal or even political bias. |
First Declension: New and Collected Poems
Two English Girls and the Continent
Am I That Far?
Poetry
The bulk of this collection was created during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and some poems are steeped in the mood. Most, though, pass through the eternal reflections of a life left in tow and in regret. As usual, Bruno manages to find the laughter. This edition features a fresh and exciting translation of Arthur Rimbaud's classic Le Bateau ivre, which Bruno has also re-titled in good and faithful English. |