 Order Beyond the Masks |
| Harvey Stanbrough is a poet, essayist, and fictionist. Beyond the Masks was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006. Other collections of his poetry have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a Frankfurt Award, and an Inscriptions Magazine Engraver's Award. Harvey works as a full-time writer, poet, and freelance editor from his home near Whetstone, Arizona and offers intensives and workshops on Observation, Poetry, and Fiction. |
|
Beyond the Masks, nominated for the National Book Award, 2006. What reviewers have said about Beyond the Masks... "Harvey Stanbrough's new and selected poems, Beyond the Masks, does just that---it cuts below the surface of things to what is meaningful.... Stanbrough deals with human relationships... and superhuman ones, sometimes with a dash of ironic wit.... All the while the reader is treated to blank verse, keen attention to line and stanza breaks, and other formal works, rhymed and metered." Michael J. Bugeja "In such poems as 'Upwardly Mobile' Harvey Stanbrough proves himself to be a deft and amusing satirist. And even better are those poems like 'Great Expectations' which quietly and eloquently illuminate fundamental aspects and conditions of our existence." Timothy Steele "In an era when so many poems are sparsely populated with only a first or perhaps a second person, it is refreshing to find poems that include so many genuine other people. And it is also refreshing, when so many poets have little experience outside the ivory tower and the dull suburbs of melancholy, to read a poet who has lived fully in the world. Stanbrough, a former Marine, is most powerful when speaking of war, its mowing and its aftermath. Yet through his technical control, he is able to do so with a cool eye." A. E. Stallings
"Harvey Stanbrough's new collection, Beyond the Masks, is a work of great power and impressive range. Stanbrough is a poet with a genuine sense of life's intermittent savagery, a writer whose stark snapshots of pain, hunger, warfare, lies, rage, and suicide tear away the masks of our self-deception. Andn yet there is a fierce hope here as well, a refusal to acquiesce in our human failings. Stanbrough has a clear vision of life's brutality, but he has an even clearer vision of someone who's passed through that brutality and found compassion." Joseph S. Salemi |