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Balance Act is Ken Cormier’s first published collection of prose and poetry. Ranging in mood from all out hilarity to heart stopping melancholy, Balance Act utilizes a consistent thread of music and rhythm to propel it’s language. Simply put, Cormier brings performance to the page. Balance Act is his one man variety show. Cormier’s stories peel back the layers of a bent suburban landscape, and his characters scratch and claw to find inspiration on the railroad tracks, to bear the absurdity of family dysfunction, and to trade the bitterness of complacency for the thrill of total annihilation. |
| Poems reinforce Balance Act’s overarching themes, punctuating the text like rapid –fire epiphanies, with glimpses of suicidal bathrooms, ridiculous crucifixions, and the madness of Melville at his writing desk. | |
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Be on the lookout for Ken Cormier’s Balance Act, published by Insomniac Press.It is now available nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
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"Balance Act is a no-net, bare naked high wire performance that defies gravity with hilarity, with absurdity, and with a blessed surround- sound of song. Ken Cormier cuts language to it’s tender, small bone-words and rattles them like crazy." |
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| -Janet Kauffman, Author (The Body in Four Parts, Collaborators, and Places in the World a Woman Could Walk) | |
