A Handful Of Smoke
By Jim Hart
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Jim Hart’s newest work, “A Handful Of Smoke”, is a collection of contemporary verse. The poems cover a range of themes from urban violence to the wistfully romantic. The poems cast a blazing eye on the fallible, the optimistic, the regretful. Indeed the entire gamut of the human condition. Employing various tones including the ironic, satiric, dreamy and tender, and unique meter the poems bring to the fore our sometimes dark and sometimes rosy perspectives on modern life. While his might be a voice of the Baby Boomer Generation portraying an often personal journey on first reading when looked at again the poems relate to the simple universals of the human spirit. They expose our anger our lustful wishes, our descent into depression and remorse at what might have been once upon a time
Jim Hart
Jim Hart was raised in Brooklyn where he still resides with his wife. He began his working life as a drummer in rock and blues bands before beginning a thirty-year career in the New York City Sanitation Department. During which time he worked his way through the ranks to serve in such positions as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Director of Correspondence for the Sanitation Police. Proving inspiration can come from the strangest places. He retired from the Department to pursue his love for writing. Besides Jim’s First Poetry collection: "Ramblings Of A One-Eyed Garbage Man," he has published a noir detective novel set in 1947 Brooklyn, NY: “A Tom Collins To Go.” His poems have been published in over 60 journals and reviews throughout the world. His work has appeared in the United States, Ireland, England, Austria, India, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and on the Web.One of his poems has been made into a poster by Phantom Billstickers and appeared in Myanmar (formally Burma) and in Thailand. Jim has been the featured poet at Barnes & Noble, The Brooklyn Public Library, BookMark Bards, Boulevard Bards and at The Inspired Word Poetry Series. Jim has also co-written two songs for the 2015 Peter Stevens Band cd “Change My World.”
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