Phenomenal Farewell

A celebration of life, beauty, and comradeship, this portrait of human and Mother Nature offers up some haunting, powerfully affecting, and starkly honest poems. Published in veteran author Jesse Bier's 93rd year, the varied collection ranges from sheer, unabashed joy and wonder to the depths of unassuaged grief. Equally diverse in style and subject, Bier's poems remain highly accessible, including a smattering of observations on the wellspring of creativity, and a few playful, wry takes on the (so-called) discipline and art of poetry itself. In an era ever more characterized by deep divisiveness amongst genders, classes, political parties and races, Bier challenges us to transcend bias of all types, and reminds us that ultimately, we all share more in common than we differ amongst ourselves. Bier's hopeful, refreshing, timeless and yet urgent appeal to our better nature is a message that resonates in the here and now.