Gene Berry's work is real deal good stuff. His use of language, meter and imagery sweep us along in a current as we eagerly turn page after page - savoring poem after poem.
In Gene Barry's collection of poetry, Unfinished Business from Doghouse Press, he pulls the reader in with his unique ability to speak about human beings and struggle. The poem's search into the psychoanalytic in regards to self-limitation from wounds, past regrets, and physical debilitation.
"Nobody whistles these days." This is the beauty of Gene's poetry.
"Unfinished Business." demonstrates that Gene Barry, founder of and moving force behind The Fermoy International Poetry Festival, The Blackwater Poetry Group, and tireless advocate for Poetry and Poets worldwide; is an accomplished poet in his own right.
Writing a review for such a kindhearted, genius, great poet known as Gene Barry; is nothing less than an honor and privilege. He's a wonderful teacher, brother, & mentor.
Gene Barry has a way with words that immediately cuts past the surface and finds their way to the gooey insides of what makes us tick. Gene's works are both dark and light, funny and serious, lyrical and editorial...
Gene Barry’s poetry is about life, he writes with originality and freshness, vitality and a newness of experience, that make his poems a lasting success. In the pages of “Unfinished Business” you will find poems that read like music to your intelligence.
Unfinished Business is one of the most in depth analytical poetry books on the complex relationship between family members, the cause and effect of incidents, the dimensions of decisions, in the most poetic beautiful language. Gene Barry crafts his poetry in colors and shapes leading the reader to an understanding of love and its complexity.
Gene Barry is one of those poets that will leave you absorbing his words long after you have finished reading. Each line holding lines within lines, stories unfolding within stories and words that will get right inside of you and open you up to places you never knew existed.
To say that Gene Barry is a good poet is to underestimate the power of his work. Indeed, Gene's acute observations of life and of mankind lend his poetry a visceral quality that 'shocks' the reader into a sense of familiarity and the personal.
A Man; An Irish man; A Psychotherapist; A Listener, An inspiration to many in numerous countries around the world. Gene Barry writes from the Heart but in a way that strikes Chords with the reader, even given there are cultural differences, there is something in his writings that picks at the very essence of our psyche.
Gene Barry is a wonderful poet! This book contains some of his finest work.
Barry has a gift for putting the reader in the moment, whether the moment is between the speaker and father, the speaker and child, or the speaker and himself. No relationship or observation goes unexamined.
To read a gene Barry poem is to encounter moments of life described in a supremely engaging art form. To read the book ‘Unfinished Business’ is to go on a journey through life itself.
In some way we can only hope that Gene Berry's business remains unfinished. So we can again and again savour the humanity that falls from his words.
