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|  | | An Ice Axe At Dusk
Gene McCormick’s latest collection of narrative poetry (poems as stories, stories as poems), An Ice Axe At Dusk, was published by March Street Press. The 81+ page collection consists of 57 new, or previously uncollected, vignettes of recognizable people—and sometimes objects—working through their daily lives.
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Gene McCormick’s Lives of Passion: Edward and Antoinette (Rockford, Illinois: RWG Press, 2013), the author’s thirteenth book, is a series of interlocking prose poems that tell, in seventeen short pieces, the story of an ordinary couple–mid-century figures whose lives have run together–from childhood on.
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According to Gene, “Livin' The Blues At Cranky Jack's Bar & Grill contains some of my earliest writing, reflecting the realities of life as it is lived on a daily basis but with a bit of an earthy edge.” The chapbook is in three segments, each making observations from a slightly different, maybe skewed, perspective.
p class="MsoNormal">font size="2" face="Arial">"Gene McCormick's latest book, a literary virtual tour of a colorful town, chased my blues away. It was a treat to meet its denizens. The book actually read more like a novella than a narrative collection--a novella rich in breadth, depth and the nuance of language." /font>
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font face="Arial">span style="line-height: 115%">font size="2"> Livin’ The Blues At Cranky Jack&r | |  | | Naked Skeletons
According to the author, “The poems in Naked Skeletons are reality-based, heightened story-telling of daily life episodes of which we all have to work through, or are aware of. The poems are meant as stories, clear and accessible. There is no tricky wordplay; the messages are in the content.”
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“Gene McCormick has mastered the illusion of thoroughness…his work includes deep, sensual descriptions wrought through piercing perceptions instead of checklist adjectives. Instead, McCormick will often leave out one single detail which turns the entire story on its head by the narrative’s end. The result is extremely compelling…featuring both twisted tales and everyday observations.
p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal">font size="2" face="Arial">“Gene McCormick has mastered the illusion of thoroughness…his work includes deep, sensual descriptions wrought through piercing perceptions instead of checklist adjectives. Instead, McCormick will often leave out one single detail which turns the entire story on its head by the narrative’s end. The result is extremely compelling…featuring both twisted tales and everyday observations./font>
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A collection of narrative poetry exploring the experiences of everyday people and their lives.
"Gene McCormick has mastered the illusion of thoroughness...his work includes deep, sensual descriptions wrought through piercing perceptions...[An] immensely engrossing and interesting collection. McCormick is able to take everyday people and places and weave them into something otherworldly and epic, and that is certainly something worth celebrating."br />
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"A virtuoso performance. Fresh, colorful, startling."br />
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--Amazon.com | |  | | The Blue Collar Thoroughbred
This volume presents a non-fiction insider's look at today's sport of Thoroughbred racing from a day-to-day, behind-the-scenes vantage point. Divided into three sections, it discusses the racing, breeding and jockeying which is the reality of Thoroughbred racing.
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The Eagle & The Plum is an insider's chronicle of the unprecedented, record-setting feats of two wrong-side-of-the-tracks Thoroughbreds competing at racing's outback tracks who raced long, hard, and often...Sometimes with success, sometimes not. It is a compassionate, truly-told story of the reality-defying love affair two blue-collar horses had for the dangerous sport of horseracing, and of the people who care for them.
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Thoroughbred trainer Gene McCormick captures the essence of racing that takes place daily at tracks nationwide by focusing on two hard-knocking runners from the claiming ranks. Claiming races are the foundation of the sport, where a runner can change owners immediately after a race.br />
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