First of Four New Books by RD Armstrong

Fire and Rain is a large collection of poems (184 in just 158 pages)(my first) that spans the years from 1993 to 1998. The second volume of this book will cover the remaining years (1999 to 2007) and will be published later this year.

You can hear me read excerpts from this book by going to You Tube and typing "RD Armstrong" into the search window. If you like what you hear, you can go to the Lummox Press website and order a signed copy. Just go to www.lummoxpress.com and click on the book cover (all the info plus some samples are available inside).

Here's what B. L. Kennedy (reviewed in the Rattlesnake Review out of Sacramento, CA) had to say about this collection:

"This is a handsome collection of poetry by one of California’s most prolific writers of poetry. Having known RD Armstrong mainly through e-mail, it wasn’t until a few months ago at Luna’s Café that I had the opportunity to actually meet the poet.

Upon dipping into Fire and Rain, I could not help but take note of the quality of this collection: the quality of the poems and the clear writing style that the reader is offered with this book. Armstrong is ever the social critic, and the 185 poems included in this manuscript are a testament to his original vision. Working from the sweat of life, Armstrong is a talent that plants itself in your mind with his rough-and-ready voice of delicate lyric and refined narrative. He is a poet who does not creep from behind but is full-frontal in his twist of a line and his blue-collar sensibilities. To not recommend the work of RD Armstrong to new readers would be sinful and sad, because here is a poet with a voice that will challenge even the most hard-ass critics of poetry.

So don’t be afraid to purchase a copy of Fire and Rain: Selected Poems 1993-2007 and explore the words of this well-grounded writer."

B. L. Kennedy