PUBLISHED REVIEWS

"Keith Gery is a poet worth checking out. Refreshing, cut-to-the-bone honesty in every word. His premier collection, It Was Easy To Say Goodbye, is rapidly becoming an underground classic. New and noteworthy."

Jeffrey Weinberg, Publisher, Water Row Press, Sudbury, MA

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"This volume of poetry is provocative and profound. The poems cover a broad range of subjects, e.g. human destiny, death, love affairs, and daily living experiences.

Many poems deal with the darker emotions that are enhanced by Gery's word plays. Many of his final lines are real clinchers, i.e. that they either shock or point up a profundity or surprise us with irony or some provocative vision.

Keith Gery is very much a twenty-first century poet. His style is tightly structured with no sentimentality or overly descriptive points-of-view. The expletives are always dramatically viable and the metaphors are both interesting and imaginative.

I certainly enjoyed reading Keith Gery's volume of poems and I'm sure that you'll have the same experience."

by Charles Scanzello
Bookends: The Journal of the Friends of Reading-Berks Public Libraries
Sept.-Oct. 2002, Vol. 20, No. 5.

READER REVIEWS

Jeff G., Lake Villa, IL, writes: "REMARKABLE & well worth the price. Buy it.....Read it. You won't be disappointed."

Glenn A., Allentown, PA, writes: "Wow!   I couldn't put it down...I read it through twice last night.  Here is my condensed version of a suitable review: A witty, obtuse and irreverent montage of feelings and thoughts!  Gery is able to paint a portrait with words and phrases that vividly portray a life observed and deeply felt.  Raw emotions, and sometimes a sense of futility and hopelessness, that we can identify with as we recall our similar disgust with hypocrisy, injustice, violence, placed in a juxtaposition with our own personal pains experienced, and relationships gone sour.   It's an existential hybrid of King Solomon's Ecclesiastes 'All is vanity' and the Beatles' 'Penny Lane.'
Kudos to the author for baring his soul and sharing his innermost thoughts and perceptions!"

J.H., Harvey Cedars, NJ, writes: "Wow! Such beautifully insightful writing! Life's turns and twists bring the reader in --- then the biting enlightenment really hits. Good work! Sounds like singing the blues."

Denise E., Mukilteo, WA, writes: "The book is terrific! My husband & I have enjoyed it very much. A really fine collection! Well done! I'll look forward to your next volume as well!"

James B., Hammond, IN, writes: A cross between Bukowski, The Beats and Rimbaud. A true poet. Keep up the good work; the world needs more true poets. A poet of your caliber needs to be read; it's as simple as that.