"Osborne Street Attic Blues" is the perfect collection for readers who appreciate thoughtful, accessible poetry with an ironic twist. A graduate of the writing program at William Paterson University, Bill Gleeson, M.A., weaves the hope and happiness of childhood with the regrets and nostalgia of middle age. Semi-autobiographical and sometimes surreal, the forty-four varied poems of this collection begin, like so many lives, in curiosity and end in transformation, and are designed to appeal to readers who enjoy an engaging, rich style and a diversity of form.
"Osborne Street Attic Blues" is the perfect collection for readers who appreciate thoughtful, accessible poetry with an ironic twist. A graduate of th...
Forty-Sixth Street is a life raft for readers treading the deep waters of life, a consoling, compassionate and intensely personal collection, a book of honest self-examination. It is deal for readers who appreciate accesible, thoughtful poetry presented in a diversity of style and form that embraces the language of the common day man. Bill Gleeson revisits five decades mixing the hope and happiness of childhood with the regrets and nostalgia of middle age. Semi- autobiographical and often times comically surreal, the poems of this monumental collection take the reader along for a ride, an...
Forty-Sixth Street is a life raft for readers treading the deep waters of life, a consoling, compassionate and intensely personal collection, a book o...
"Ten Days of Blue Sky" opens the screen door to feel the breeze off an immense ocean of possibilities. Not stopping to pause, Bill Gleeson writes quickly and automatically drawing forth unconscious thoughts in an attempt to portray the underlying optimism that drives the human condition. Written start to finish in just ten days, the fifty-eight poems of this collection are an eclectic mix of free association and flowing dream imagery that portray an emerging versatile writer with the unique ability to leap backward and forward in the same breath, to use his unique voice to shed light on a...
"Ten Days of Blue Sky" opens the screen door to feel the breeze off an immense ocean of possibilities. Not stopping to pause, Bill Gleeson writes quic...
In a small town on the Jersey side of the Palisades, the desperate lonliness of adolescence and a strange mix of race and culture collide during the turbulent 60's. Bill Gleeson has fashioned a big city play just a few miles from Manhattan, a short boat ride across the Hudson River. Whitey Larkin is a fish out of that flawed murky water, an orphan boy, shy and sensitive, struggling to be heard, struggling to find his place in the world. In his way is the comic character of his Aunt Nuala, the half wicked, mostly conflicted step parent determined to raise him up right in a volatile era....
In a small town on the Jersey side of the Palisades, the desperate lonliness of adolescence and a strange mix of race and culture collide during the t...
