{"id":99094,"date":"2025-09-06T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/in-a-hard-fall-and-good-bounce-brian-dambrosio-delivers-raw-lyrical-poems-of-collapse-and-renewal-wry-defiance-and-the-stubborn-pursuit-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:41:42","slug":"in-a-hard-fall-and-good-bounce-brian-dambrosio-delivers-raw-lyrical-poems-of-collapse-and-renewal-wry-defiance-and-the-stubborn-pursuit-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/in-a-hard-fall-and-good-bounce-brian-dambrosio-delivers-raw-lyrical-poems-of-collapse-and-renewal-wry-defiance-and-the-stubborn-pursuit-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"In “A Hard Fall and Good Bounce” Brian D\u2019ambrosio Delivers Raw, Lyrical Poems of Collapse and Renewal, Wry Defiance, and the Stubborn Pursuit of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Santa Fe, NM, September 06, 2025 –(PR.com<\/a>)–\u00a0“A Hard Fall and Good Bounce,” by Brian D\u2019Ambrosio (2025)<\/p>\n

In his new collection A Hard Fall and Good Bounce, Brian D\u2019Ambrosio delivers poetry that is raw, searching, and unafraid to peer into the shadows of memory, art, and modern culture. At once bruised and resilient, these poems navigate the tension between collapse and recovery, disillusionment and renewal, despair and the persistence of hope.<\/p>\n

The book takes its name from the title poem, which serves as both compass and confession. D’Ambrosio’s opening words of “A Hard Fall and Good Bounce.”: \u201cA hard fall needs \/ a good bounce \/ a bird\u2019s eye view \/ of the Old Grand Opry House\/ where the automatic elevator came up\/ rent was low”…<\/p>\n

Here, the fall is not only physical but cultural and emotional\u2014a collapse of values, illusions, and ideals. The bounce is not a cure but a stubborn act of defiance, a refusal to remain broken.<\/p>\n

Across the collection, D\u2019Ambrosio explores a world that is at once gritty and lyrical, populated by, in his words, \u201cconnoisseurs of degenerates,\u201d \u201cgrainy voices,\u201d and \u201cold hippies\u201d who traded Woodstock ideals for corporate prescriptions. His verse cuts through nostalgia with dark wit, then tempers its edge with flashes of tenderness and persistence. In the poet’s words: \u201cA hard fall \/ and a good bounce \/ indulging passions \/ then decomposing \/ in a two-foot deep grave \/ on a riverbank \/ deep in the wilderness you love.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Hard Fall and Good Bounce is a meditation on what it means to endure\u2014the indignities of aging, the betrayals of culture, the compromises of survival\u2014and still search for the \u201cone dream that\u2019s still unrealized,\u201d in his words. It\u2019s a book that bristles at being dismissed, even as it admits its fragility.<\/p>\n

With uniquely penetrating insight, D\u2019Ambrosio writes for readers who crave literature that doesn\u2019t flinch, who can appreciate poetry that is at once \u201cliterate, wryly gloomy,\u201d in his words, and yet pulsing with a stubborn vitality.<\/p>\n

“A Hard Fall and Good Bounce” will be available in print and digital editions in October 2025.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Walk Through Fire Books
Contact: WalkThroughFireBooks@gmail.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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