In this collection of 44 poems, Robert Swearingen takes the reader on a journey through a life that is by turns raw, humorous, and at times, poignant. With a brutal honesty that asks for neither pity nor condemnation, he speaks in the context of personal experience, of a life of material success, selfishness, loss, folly, loneliness, and the hope for a redemption that will transcend the mistakes of the past.
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"A simple, beautiful volume, filled with poems as contagious as any I've read or heard in a long time." -- Albuquerque Weekly Alibi
Here is poetry that is candidly honest, deftly written, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always interesting. -- Midwest Book Review
Here is poetry that is candidly honest, deftly written, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always interesting. -- Midwest Book Review
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Robert Swearingen attended Purdue University and received a B.,A. in English from Western New Mexico University in 1973. After jobs as a steel worker, bartender, taxicab driver, teacher, and social worker, he took to the road at age 39 and has been traveling ever since.
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Better than Buk?,
By Pete Collins (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Street Milk (Paperback)
I wouldn't call myself a big fan of poetry in general. But this book does for me what Bukowski did years ago: It makes me interested in a medium that I otherwise ignor. What moves me about Swearingen's work is the honesty of his line - same with Buk. But I would say that Street milk surpasses much of what Bukowski did, because in Swearingen's line - there's more weight. Bukowski's line was clean, but Swearingen's is also full. Perhaps he's a bit more honest than old Buk was. Anyway, definately check this book out.
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