Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism (Broadstone Books, 2024) is a collection of poetry by 1976 Boston College graduate Michael Brosnan. According to the publisher: “In this profound volume of experimental poetry, Michael Brosnan exhibits exquisite control as he employs (and invents) tools of verse language (far beyond mere ‘odd enjambments’) to interrogate—and deconstruct, literally—the word sublime, in all of its senses. Many sublime companions (real and imaginary) are along for the ride—Mozart, Coltrane, Jimmy Page, Moby-Dick, Dr. Philosophy—while erasures of Wordworth poems frame and intersperse the work (an act of distillation that serves as a model for the book as a whole).” Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism was a finalist for a Wandering Aengus Book Award. Brosnan’s previous poetry collections are Adrift and The Sovereignty of the Accidental.