Tales of The Afterlife

Gary Beaumier's poems present crystal clear but novel new images - images that are so refined and honed they feel like long-absent and newly discovered friends - instantly recognizable and welcomed with amazement and love. The poems are a beautiful soft flow of line and language emerging like a rill discovered in the obscurity of some literary linguistic woodland. This is deeply compassionate and emotional poetry that never-the-less eschews sentimentality.- Henry Stanton Publisher Uncollected PressThe poet manages to bare his soul in the perfect distillation of words - this is the work of Gary Beaumier. Raw heartfelt and aching with all the messiness and longing of life.- Mary Boyle Managing Editor of Ozaukee Living LocalIn these poems present past and even future coexist death and life two sides of a coin. Beaumier deftly conjures--and honors--memory as a landscape where endless discovery beckonswhere sanctuary may be found.- Virginia Small Poet & Author ofGreat Gardens of the Berkshires