About My Cat

<p>Brian Fournier creates art while writing poetry in no less than what he identifies as an act of survival. He shares his evocative art and poetry in <em>About My Cat and Other Tales</em>. Survival requires sharp personal insights as well as astute assessments of one's surroundings. With pen and ink drawings along with poetry deeply personal and sometimes edgy Fournier reveals both skills.</p><p>Fournier's poetry comes alive in complex underpinnings that emerge in sharing of a simple moment such as a communication with his cat. The gentle tone rewards the reader with the sweetness of innocent intention followed by a gut punch of acute pain from an abrupt act that annihilates the sweetness.</p><p>The poems sweep broadly through autobiographical childhood episodes and into the angst and challenges of Fournier's transformative adult persona. Through it all Fournier never wavers from speaking his truth with a genuine and skillful voice.</p>