Poetry. "Rick Bursky's marvelous debut collection is filled with dark and funny parables of loss - playful, buoyant and ominous, - that pierce the strangeness at the heart of daily life. Get ready to find yourself laughing even as you peer into the abyss"- Edward Hirsch. "A sense of loss informs even the most high-spirited of Bursky's meditations. There's a laugh and a pang on every page of THE SOUP OF SOMETHING MISSING. I love this book"- Roger Fanning