As If Gravity Were a Theory Available from The Cider Press Review or Amazon.com.

 

In choosing As If Gravity Were a Theory for this year’s Cider Press Review Book Award, poet Virgil Suàrez writes: "This is a gifted poet, for sure. One fully aware of the ability of image to carry the burden of language, except there's no burden here. Not at all. These poems are at best richly elegiac and nostalgic, but the good kind of nostalgia. The kind that reconnects us with nature, with kin, with all the dead poets and people in our lives."

Other praise:

In Don Colburn’s As If Gravity Were a Theory snow falls up, a wrecking ball is a “two-ton teardrop,” and storm-thrashed trees mimic the violence of drowning. Colburn’s poems bring us into contact with the simple magnificence that surrounds us daily.  They give us the eyes to peer into the familiar strangeness of experience wherein lies the astonishing invisible world, and for this power we should be deeply and humbly grateful.

                                    --Michael Collier, director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

 

Another Way to Begin available from Finishing Line Press and Amazon.com

Praise for Another Way to Begin:

In this fine first collection, precisions of the journalist regularly fuse with the lyricism of the poet, so much so that in Colburn's sure, humane voice they seem inseparable. And then there's "In the Workshop After I Read My Poem Aloud," which shows a mastery of tone, and makes us laugh.

                       -- Stephen Dunn, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Don Colburn has that rare, consoling gift: a pure lyric voice, nature bathed in what Keats called poetry’s “drainless shower of light.”  In Another Way to Begin, the world happens again, opening into meaning, in the rich music of its saying.
                                                           
                        -- Eleanor Wilner, poet and MacArthur Fellow

In Another Way to Begin, Don Colburn honors what he loves -- his parents and literary mentors, the mysterious beauties of nature, a wise child, a dead friend, a beat-up first baseman on national display -- and in the quiet precision of his lyrics, he honors the making of poetry itself.
                       -- John Daniel, poet and winner of the Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction