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Bobby Long: Dissipating Youth & Gaining Perspective

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By:Angela
Posted June 5, 2012

 
Bobby Long: LOSING MY BROTHERHOOD

There are those things they teach you in school about poetry, things like rhyme schemes and stresses and metrical feet. Things like sonnets and pastoral poetry and the epic. Regardless of all those rules and terms though, poetry can be one of the most free-form arts, allowing the writer to take on a poetic license, which is really to say that the author can do whatever he pleases. English singer/songwriter Bobby Long has added that character of poet to his career with his first book of poetry, Losing my Brotherhood.

Now 26 years old and living in New York to further his career as a musician, Long takes the sixty-two poems that make up the collection to look back at the past and explore today, pondering over ideas of love and relationships, youth, and finding one’s self amidst the loss of those things. While in his weaker moments Long jams pieces with too much language and descriptors or carries a distant, monotonous tone, the stronger poems that make up the majority of the book surface with their short story-like quality and tangible emotion and atmosphere.

Reminiscing on life in general and the days of his past, Long tends to take on a deeply historical context in a handful of his poems, a fun concept that turns awry by becoming almost too deeply embedded in it. “Ballad for James Jucipher” carries on with heralds and pulpits and love, but becomes so involved with this historical setting that it washes over the reader. “Jerusalem” holds a similar nature in the gallantry of the story it tells. Once again though, it takes off with that idea so markedly so as to obscure the meaning. Alongside this, the text smothers readers with extensive use of detail and verbosity as Long writes, “In the castle of my heart,/ In the loose cold tomb of Richard,/ On the handle of his gallant sword,/ Pilfering and pillaging the passion.”


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      • Cindy
      • St Louis, MO
      • Jun 3, 2013 @ 10:51 PM

    • Bobby - we miss you in St Louis! Please come back!

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    • Seen you in concert in Philly last week and you were amazing. I brought my husband with me and I'm proud To say you have a new fan. Thanks for a great night and I. Hope to see you again in the future. And by the way the new cd is great !!!

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    • Heard you on the RADIO today in NY for the first time on 107.1 the peak. Have been waiting to hear that since I first listened to you! Congrats!!

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    • Unacceptable! Bobby Long and Marcus Foster are playing in my city on the same night at different venues. This is a huge personal conundrum and IDK what to do! Who can I get to fix this?

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    • We're still looking for something in the southwest! California to Colorado to Texas -- Since we know you're not likely to make it through our fair city--we know we'll have to travel to make it to a concert. It takes time to make plans and get time off work.........Please give us some dates soon!

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      • Jan 24, 2013 @ 10:57 AM

    • Bobby, Bob, Bobert, Dude!! You have like a week left over there...it's time to release those US dates. I've been more than patient ~ spill! x

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      • Dec 19, 2012 @ 11:24 PM

    • Bobby!!! With the release of Wishbone this coming year, I think that you need to bring you and your music to Canada. Although, you have performed in a few cities in the past... You were nowhere near us (my friends and I)

      Do you know when new tour dates are being planned?

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    • I like all the choices for your Christmas song this year and I love the River by Joni Mitchell but it's really a sad song, so for that reason I have to go with I'll Be Home For Christmas

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    • A few Christmas songs I would love to hear you sing "Blue Christmas" "O Holy Night" Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" and "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"

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