Roy Bentley is the author of Walking with Eve in the Loved City (University of Arkansas Press), a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and Starlight Taxi (Lynx House Press), which won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize. Other books include The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana (White Pine Press), which was the winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Any One Man (Bottom Dog Press), and Boy in a Boat (University of Alabama Press), which won the University of Alabama Press Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Ohio Arts Council, and the NEA.

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Other poems on the web by Roy Bentley:
"Death at the Lakeshore"
Three poems
Six poems
"The Last Drive-In in Newark, Ohio Closes"
Three poems
Two poems
"Angry Men"

Roy Bentley According to Wikipedia.

About American Loneliness:

"Our review has been proud to publish more poems by Roy Bentley than any other poet in recent memory. His are poems which ignite curiosity, poems which both disturb and console, fully comprehensible, though challenging without sacrifice to quasar-like intelligence. Here is a volume with plenty of doors and windows to invite the reader inside. In American Loneliness, we find Mr. Bentley a fearless explorer of human natures. These verses are a gift and replete with surprises, page after page. Among America's most gifted storytellers. A poet's poet and, equally admirable, a readers' poet. A poet who gets it all right. And no false moves."
—Robert Nazarene