Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father
Ian Young, Founder of Catalyst Press and Editor of The Male Muse: Bryan Borland's Less Fortunate Pirates is one of the most moving and eloquent explorations of the devastations and epiphanies of filial loss since James Agee's 1950′s classic A Death in the Family.Alice Shapiro, Author of Saltian: Less Fortunate Pirates, with its flawless transition from one state of consciousness to another, with its rhythmic undulations of phrasing, with its unique and satisfying metaphoric switches, builds a range of emotions that is moving, buoys us through the natural healing process and reveals the beauty in all phases of the human condition. Bryan Borland has given us a seamless read and pure celebration. Less Fortunate Pirates begins in truth, ends in truth, and through occasional dream imagery, mysteriously bridges our emotional reactions to death with reality. All of us experience death whether of the body or in transformative life situations. Less Fortunate Pirates