christinecowley's review
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
When I first discovered the work of Bruce Meyer, I was struck by how much living he has managed to cram into a handful of decades. Besides writing over 60 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, he has also worked as a photo-journalist, university professor, lit mag editor, CBC broadcaster, and probably a dozen others he doesn’t mention.
Meyer’s latest collection of flash fiction, Down in the Ground (Guernica Editions) stands as a testament to all that living. Pointing us in the direction of wisdom from unexpected sources, the poet in Meyer stirs up pricks of remembrance that reanimate the past with all its emotive and sensory piquancy intact. Breathing through young-again centenarians, weary cowboys, and a childhood that gallops undeterred down in the ground, the past is a state of mind, as easy to step into as invisibility in a snowstorm.
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