Bob BrueckL: 57 years old, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, interested in mysticism, the 4th dimension of stillness, silence, the experience of timelessness; degrees from the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University, studying under John Ashbery, among others.
Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War. Did most of my time in a prison camp called Allenwood with a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses, a 2-star General, Carmine DeSapio--the ex-head of Tammany Hall, LBJ's sidekick, Bobby Baker, and a host of other interesting misfits. I rejected a Presidential Pardon from Gerald Ford.
I am bi-polar II, obsessive-compulsive, a lust-addict and food addict, and would have been dead or homeless years ago without the help of an angel whose name is HERTA; she possesses the body of a woman from Vienna, Austria, and is the HEART of the EARTH.
I have been published in Monks Pond (edited by Thomas Merton, 1968) in an issue that included Jack Kerouac and Louis Zukofsky while they were both still alive, Partisan Review, and more recently in Lost & Found Times, BlazeVox2, Wryting, Muse Apprentice Guild, xSTREAM, Idiolect, Van, and VeRT #9.
Two of my favorite writers are Gertrude Stein and John M. Bennett.