Violent Blues is a blues-harp album of words, a soundtrack of self-violence and loss, introspection and renewal—one man’s search for intimacy and enduring music. Its poems are rooted in the natural world and tethered by concrete experience.

BRUCE WILLARD’S first collection of poems, Holding Ground, was published by Four Way Books in 2013. Willard is a graduate of Middlebury College with a BA in American Literature and holds a MFA from Bennington College’s Writing Seminars program. In addition to his work as a poet, Willard is a businessman/entrepreneur.