On Broad Sound

With On Broad Sound Rusty Barnes turns his attention from his rural Appalachian roots to twenty plus years of living in a working class suburb of Boston. Ranging widely in subject matter On Broad Sounds poems were inspired by and often titled with locations in and around the authors adopted home in Revere Massachusetts. Whether its observing planes land at Logan Airport eating cookies with the city mayor or watching his children play in a marsh partially sectioned off by yellow crime tape On Broad Sound is part urban travelogue and part sharp portrayal of modern life.