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New Book of Poetry from Malden Native David R. Surette Koenisha Publications is proud to announce the release of David R.Surette’s new book of poetry EASY TO KEEP, HARD TO KEEP IN. The book contains fifty-one new poems by Surette. It is available from Amazon.com, Koenisha.com, and Davidsurette.com. Surette finds the poetry in his Malden, Massachusetts neighborhood growing up in the 60’s and 70’s and raising his own children there in the 80’s and 90’s. He finds it in the animals: horses, sheep and dogs he keeps these days in his new home in Easton, Massachusetts. He finds it in the classrooms in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts where he teaches high school. Award winning poet George Bilgere writes, "There's a music and an inevitability and a crystal clarity to David Surette's work that makes me grateful." Chard deNiord author of three acclaimed books of poetry says this about Surette’s poems, "These are fresh, incisive poems that sparkle with the salt of the everyday." Surette’s poems have been published in literary journals such as Peregrine and Salamander and appear in the anthologies French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (Louisiana Literature Press); Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses! (Yarrow Mountain Press); and Look! Up In The Sky! - An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry (Sacred Fools Press). Surette attended this year’s Bread Loaf Writing Conference. He also co-host Poetribe, a poetry series in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Surette has a website http://www.davidsurette.com where you can read his full biography and read many of his poems. He also posts his many readings. Surette, David R. Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In. Koenisha Publications October 31, 2007. ISBN-10: 0980009804Jacket Blurbs: The first time I read these lines I penciled in the margin next to them, Steal this! I found myself doing the same thing again and again as I kept reading. There's a music and an inevitability and a crystal clarity to David Surette's work that makes me grateful. "These are fresh, incisive poems that sparkle with the salt of the everyday. Surette writes with a quick, acquisitive eye and self-effacing voice that invites his reader into the small but resonant dramas of his childhood, his adult family life and his job as a high school English teacher in eastern Massachusetts. With a remarkable lack of "irritable reaching", Surette records the vivid, quotidian narratives of his life with a universal, direct appeal." "David Surette is a steward of humility in its many forms: from his blue-collar Acadian roots to his lowly yet noble farm animals. With charm and affability, yet neither of these at the cost of implicit depth, this collection impresses by setting out to do just the opposite: simply and un-self-consciously befriending the reader." "In EASY TO KEEP, HARD TO KEEP IN, David R. Surette continues to mine a life rooted in small New England towns, and brings up gold. His subtle wit, his precision of eye and ear and language lay bare universal truths of living in this world. Through these poems his town becomes our town, our home, and it is with joy and gratitude that this reader keeps returning to them."
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