The Bluebird Run

The Bluebird Run is a monumental collection of 180 new sonnets by Montana poet memoirist artist and musician Greg Keeler. Ranging from humorous flights to poignant meditations on loss love aging and the fate of humanity faced with looming environmental and social crises the poems in this collection showcase a highly lauded writer at the peak of his abilities. Fans of both Keelers irreverently witty songwriting and his deep-thinking explorations into lifes pains and mysteries will find much to treasure in this book.Greg Keeler is a treasure of the literary West. A master of the sonnet his poetry one moment can be laugh-out-loud funny and the next so deeply poignant his grief or fear or loss or regret becomes your own. A true poet of rivers and all the lonely roads to get to them he seems alone and far away and yet his voice is always always right there. -Rick Ardinger Limberlost PressA collection of 180 sonnets comes with its own built-in challenge: unless the form is renewed at every instance the author runs the risk of being admired for sheer tenacity for having mastered merely the mechanics dictated by convention. In The Bluebird Run the challenge has been met. These wonderful sonnets are alive in their language and in the rich variation of their music as they explore sometimes with humor sometimes with pathos but always with sharp originality the permanent themes: love death nature. This is a remarkable achievement. The creative dynamo that is Greg Keeler (poet painter songwriter) has been for too long a well-kept secret. Heres to The Bluebird Run blowing his cover. -Ricardo Sternberg author of Some DanceWho would have thought that what Wordsworth called the sonnets scanty plot of ground could so congenially accommodate the (sur)real estate we find in Greg Keelers The Bluebird Run? As we move among these unnerving strange often absurd hysterically funny sad profoundly moving and ultimately sublimely wise poems we find something more than Wordsworths brief solace--we find deep and abiding consolation. What more can we ask of a poet at this time? - Michael Sexson regents professor Montana State UniversityA poet committed to making the formal informal and the ineffable accessible while exploring this journey of living and dying this dog-eared catalog of loss.- Mark Gibbons author of The Imitation BluesKeeler illuminates the details that make life on earth both brutal and beautiful.- Rose DeMaris author of The LovebirdAs humanly perceptive and sensitive as touching and as amusing and as Richard Hugo-esque musical as poetry gets ... welcome to Greg Keelers beatific creative infinity.- Paul Zarzyski author of Steering with My Knees