If I had a Gun

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In his second collection Poussin lyrically explores an ongoing line of lives seeking their well-earned peace using poetry as story-telling to explore the thoughts of ghosts butterflies old men and little children. The varied perspectives unite in their examination of the beauty found in the temporary nature of our days. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If I Had a Gun</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers a sweeping view of humanity that is a pleasure to read. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>~-Renee Emerson author of <em>Church Ladies</em>  / </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fabrice Poussin's If I Had a Gun is full of subversions and surprises. Like figures in the paintings of Edward Hopper Poussin's poems are populated with men and women that we come to know less by their exteriors than by the secret desires that these exteriors so well suggest. Musicality fullness of perception and a playful intelligence take on the big cold cosmos with grace and awe in these poems that telescope and microscope their way toward a distinctive and embracing vision. ~</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-James Kimbrell author of <em>Smote</em> / </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>Fabrice Poussin's poems move from the intimate to the infinite their vibrant imagery creating worlds in which to get lost. Characters in his poems carry secrets cracking the door for us to peer inside. I find myself reveling in knowing who they really are in the way they want to live in the aloneness everyone fears. At the other end of the spectrum imagery of galaxies and space invite me to ponder the possibilities of our existence. Fabrice's poems come alive on the page introducing us to a world of exploration and delight. ~ - </span><strong style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>Laura Leigh Morris author of <em>Jaws of Life</em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p>