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May 10, 2018
Fred Rosenblum
Books
Tramping Solo
by Fred Rosenblum
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 10,550.
Language:
English.
Published: June 15, 2021
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Fomite.
Categories:
Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Fred Rosenblum is not going to let us off easy. He’s the anti-romantic — a blue-collar poet and bus driver’s son with an affinity for the Beats’ drug-induced poetic style. He saw combat in Vietnam, returned home and took to the road, destined for Alaska
— Tom Sexton, former Poet Laureate of Alaska whose latest collection is entitled Cummiskey Alley
Playing Chicken With An Iron Horse
by Fred Rosenblum
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 14,630.
Language:
English.
Published: March 26, 2020
by
Fomite.
Categories:
Poetry » American poetry » General
And harrowing was the fear of coasters coming at
or onto us from our rear
Cow plowing us before we could climb down
and explore the stanchions for the nomadic inscriptions
Vietnumb
by Fred Rosenblum
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 9,410.
Language:
English.
Published: May 10, 2018
by
Fomite.
Categories:
Poetry » American poetry » General
The primary focus of Vietnumb is to convey the need to break the cycle of violence, this culture of war that we seem destined to repeat, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. A gritty narrative in verse, Vietnumb is a recollection of my time as a nineteen year old field marine in "the unpopular war" — a period that continues to plague me in the onerous aftermath of its wake.