R. Bremner has worked as a taxi driver, a security guard, a UPS truck unloader, and a 40-year computer programmer at Pan American World Airways, Continental Airlines, Amtrak, and Citibank.

A four-time honoree in the Allen Ginsberg Awards, Ron has been writing of incense, peppermints, and the color of time since the 1960s, in ten books/chapbooks, and hundreds of journals and anthologies including International Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of Formal Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow, Oleander Review, eighteen jazz poems in Jerry Jazz Musician, and Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry. Ron appeared in the legendary first issue of Passaic Review in 1979 along with Ginsberg, Laura Boss, and a plethora of sanguine young poets.

His latest book is You Who Are the Stranger: Collected Poems 1979-1989, Westbrae Literary Group, publisher, $10 at Amazon

NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD

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5.0 out of 5 stars

"In You Who Are the Stranger, R. Bremner gathers a decade of poems that wander city streets, back rooms, dreams, and memories with an unflinching eye and a restless heart. Here are poems that drift like smoke rings and strike like thunderclaps, moving from cab rides through Paterson to late-night reckonings with fathers, lovers, and ghosts.

Bremner's voice—by turns raw, tender, irreverent, and luminous—captures the grit of sidewalks, the ache of longing, and the absurdities of living. His poems wrestle with responsibility and rebellion, the weight of history, and the fleeting, fragile brilliance of art.

From intimate portraits to surreal vignettes, these works testify to a life both ordinary and extraordinary, where every bus ride, back alley, and broken mirror becomes a stage for meaning.

For readers of Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, and anyone who has ever felt both stranger and intimate in the same breath, Bremner's collection offers a rare, candid music of the soul."