Bøger af Mike Bove

With an economy of words and an abundance of pathos, Mike Bove's Soundtrack to Your Next Panic Attack will play its way into your heart like a favorite blues album. These poems explore nature's cycles, family dynamics, and the bittersweet spell memory casts on all of us-in Bove's words, "blending in accidental chorus / into something familiar but forgotten, / a song you used to sing and still could / if only you remembered the words." -Ken Craft, author of Time, PleaseAttuned to the soundtrack of our daily lives, Mike Bove weaves together a series of beautifully made poems that burrow to the heart of what it means to be part of a family. In this book, Mike plots a path as son, brother, father, and husband that moves from the immediate to the outside world, from the darkness in "the world / dangling from our necks" to redemption in "pockets of natural light / and trees." In "Whale Fall," a poem central to the book, he identifies stories as the maps that will lead us to a place of nourishment and renewal. The stories Mike has threaded together here create a brilliant and compassionate passageway. -Judy Kaber, author of Renaming the SeasonsIn his stunning collection, Soundtrack to Your Next Panic Attack, Mike Bove creates a map of elegies-shaping a landscape of grief and love, lamenting the loss of his father, examining the sorrows of his childhood, celebrating the difficulties and joys of parenthood and marriage, and walking us on his journey into middle age. In these poems, remembered sounds, "stone / falling heavy onto earth," objects in attics, photographs, and detritus left in drawers are relics to an ever-shifting past, to a present imbued with reflective tenderness. "We must consider ourselves / fortunate to be / brutalized by existence," Bove writes, and we come to feel along with him the wonder in all the varied shades of life-the remembered and expected pain, the joy of having and losing. -Meghan Sterling, author of These Few Seeds, View From a Borrowed Field, and Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora

Using "eye" instead of "I" is a way to hold the self loosely, to slip out of its insistence and let observations rise without, as Keats says, any irritable grasping. Bove writes with a quiet grace, whether he is speaking of childhood grief over a mother's drinking, or the sudden rapture of stepping out into the swirl of snow.

Taryn Maguire was good at hitting the shot called a stinger, good enough to get on the PGA Tour. Taryn was called "Stinger." A top golfer, he was also known as a humanitarian. He was found brutally murdered after returning to Willowtree, Arizona, his hometown, for a charity event. Bruce DelReno, a retired postman and golf enthusiast, found the body and becomes emotionally involved in the murder investigation. With his friends, including Ben Samuel, his Apache sidekick, he uncovers secrets long held by people in Willowtree. When Stinger's own secret is discovered it becomes a bigger story than his death. Fans of "Willowtree," the first Bruce DelReno Mystery, will find more of Bruce's unique relationships with friends, the police, witnesses, and suspects.

This book is a collection of excerpts, short articles, blog posts, and recipes from Mike Bove. Maddigan - My Storyis Part One of a new story about a golden retriever, Maddi, told in her own voice. The blog posts are from his website and cover topics from baseball and holidays to books and inspiration for his characters. Also here are few short articles, chapters from his two published Bruce DelReno Mysteries, a preview from the third book, and reviews of some books he recommends. The recipes are his modifications of a few of his favorites. Included is his own method for making limoncello.

Bruce DelReno, a retired postman and avid amateur golfer, finds a body near the golf course. DelReno believes this murder is connected to others, and that the police aren't moving fast enough. He does his own investigating, with help from friends, including an Apache Indian and a retired anthropologist. The story takes place in Willowtree, a fictional Arizona town.

In this cozy mystery Bruce DelReno, retired mailman and avid golfer finds a body near the golf course. He attempts to link this to other murders, which he sees connected to the entanglements and secrets of a group of locoweed smoking locals. His friend, an Apache Indian, becomes involved and supplies much of the dry humor. Much of the story takes place at the golf course, a favorite restaurant, and a nearby ranch, in the fictitious town of Willowtree, AZ.