A Poetry of Everyday Life: Rick Barot's Moving the Bones

The Boy With a Flower Behind his Ear from "Moving the Bones," by Rick Barot

You can purchase Rick Barot's book "Moving the Bones," here.

I love this line from Mikal Wix on Barot’s work: “But Barot’s candid poems from Moving the Bones create an intangible space where words can exalt feelings of longing or loss without losing their power to stabilize us in the understatement of rational, epiphanic thought.”

Barot has always had this gentle way of pressing readers toward the epiphanic revelation. His work saddles through consternations that everyone experienced during the pandemic: loneliness, paranoiac introspection, and nihilistic intervening thoughts.

Not all poetry has to embrace and console you, but having Barot’s lyric to do so will certainly never be rejected by this reader.