The Definition of Melancholy
By Cliff Burns
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Ranging from the microscopic to the macro universe, THE DEFINITION OF MELANCHOLY features poems that expose and examine the smallest, most intimate details and, in the next breath, leap into the spiritual and cosmological void, speculating on what awaits us there. A deceptively thin volume, bursting with insights and epiphanies.
Cliff Burns
I've been a professional writer for over thirty-five years and have 16 books and well over 100 published short stories to my credit (including 15 major anthology appearances).In 2023, I wrote and produced "Standing At an Angle to the Universe", a ten-part podcast devoted to books, literature and the writing life (available on Spotify, Podbean, etc.).A partial list of my titles: SO DARK THE NIGHT, ELECTRIC CASTLES, DISLOYAL SON and THE LAST HUNT.Two of my books have been shortlisted for national independent press prizes and my work has earned praise from reviewers and readers around the world, including STRANGE ADVENTURES (U.K.) who wrote: "At last Canada has a literary equivalent of David Cronenberg!"All of my novels and collections are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble...or (preferably) can be ordered through your favourite local independent book shop.
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The Definition of Melancholy - Cliff Burns
Copyright © 2022 by Cliff Burns
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Except for brief excerpts, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author.
Cover design: Chris Kent
Cover photograph: Robert Postma
Interior Layout: Megan McCullough
Published by Black Dog Press (blackdogpress@yahoo.ca)
Printed by Lightning Source
ISBN:
978-1-7781520-0-9 (Print)
978-1-7781520-1-6 (Ebook)
Also by Cliff Burns:
Notebooks: 2010 – 2020 (non-fiction)
Electric Castles: A Book of Urban Legends (stories)
Mouth: Rants & Routines (ebook only)
The Algebra of Inequality (poetry)
Righteous Blood (novellas)
Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination (stories)
Disloyal Son
Exceptions and Deceptions (stories)
New and Selected Poems (1985 – 2011)
Stromata: Prose Works (1992 – 2011)
The Last Hunt
Of the Night
So Dark the Night
The Reality Machine (stories)
violins in the void (poetry)
Black Dog Press"Poetry can repair no loss, but defies the space which separates.