Promises in the Dust

by Bill Bauer

Price 64 pages, $10.00 paper

ISBN 1-886157-01-4

Bill Bauer is a poet of spooky power. His poems literally make your neck hairs rise, and his range is impressive: war, family, nature. The poems are brightly or darkly colored with a palette from disparate places. Whether he writes about the Caribbean or a chopper leaving 'Nam, Bauer's the real thing. --Jim McKinley, Editor-in-Chief, New Letters

In 1969 Bauer served as a grunt in an infantry company stationed along the Cambodian border.

He is the author of two other books of poetry, Eye of the Ghost (out of print) and Last Lambs: Poems of Vietnam, both published by BkMk Press. After his 1965 college graduation, he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star for several years. On his return from Vietnam, he co-founded and became president of Media/Professional Insurance, Inc., a firm specializing in defending the First Amendment rights of the media. Bauer sold his company in 1992 and now lives in Colorado.