No Easy Answers

The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School

Brooks Brown, Rob Merritt

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown. Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold's darkest fantasies and most troubling revelations. After the shootings, Brown was even accused by the police of having been in on the massacre—simply because he had been friends with the killers. Now, for the first time, Brown, with journalist Rob Merritt, gets to tell his full version of the story. He describes the warning signs that were missed or ignored, and the evidence that was kept hidden from the public after the murders. He takes on those who say that rock music or video games caused Klebold and Harris to kill their classmates and explores what it might have been that pushed these two young men, from supposedly stable families, to harbor such violent and apocalyptic dreams. Shocking as well as inspirational and insightful, No Easy Answers is an authentic wake-up call for all the psychologists, authorities, parents, and law enforcement personnel who have attempted to understand the murders at Columbine High School. As the title suggests, the book offers no easy answers, but instead presents the unvarnished facts about growing up as an alienated teenager in America today. This edition contains a new afterword that describes what the two authors have experienced and learned about Columbine since the publication of the book.

To the Death

Robert Merritt, Rob Merritt

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Landscape Architects

Rob Merritt

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Sense of Direction

ROB. MERRITT

Advance Praise for Sense of Direction How do you live with the dead?-through memory and small gardens of elegiac goodbyes. From Ezra Pound to Sappho to King Lear to John Prine, these beautiful poems ask the question: "Why go through all of this wonder alone?" Rob Merritt teaches us, in the most tender and thoughtful ways, what he's learned from living. - William Walsh, author of Lakewood and Fly Fishing in Times Square In his personal Desiderata, Rob Merritt leads us through love, loss, and light and the lessons gleaned in between. "Do the best with your years," he encourages us in his wise, bighearted collection, Sense of Direction. Through his wandering and wondering about the mystery of it all, he invites us to leave the guidebook behind to see how beautiful the world really is. - Linda Parsons, author of Valediction: Poems and Prose. Rob Merritt's collection of poems, Sense of Direction, unravels with elegies and visitations. This engaging collection mines the unexplainable. Merritt populates poetry that includes famous writers, poets, artists, and others. He's not afraid to explore deeply, whether through the style of long lines or short lines. Sense of Direction urges us to contemplate, imagine, and probe. Let's travel with this poet. - Lenard D. Moore, author of The Geography of Jazz and Long Rain In his newest work of poetry, Sense of Direction, Rob Merritt returns to a reconfiguration of home. In this setting, the reader is invited to share the lonely trails of Appalachia, the gravesites of relatives, their relatives, and long evenings when romance is making up its mind and memories once again; home, where local bourbons and clear boundaries mix themselves uncertainly into the night. Like Odysseus's nostos to Ithaca, the author has returned home as if for the first time, where each of us found our first place, a place of endless rebirth; a homeland. - Robert Borcykowski, author of This Side of the Promised Land. About the Author Rob Merritt is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Bluefield University. Born in North Carolina, he lives in the mountains of West Virginia. He has published the poetry collections View from Blue-Jade Mountain (Finishing Line Press), The Language of Longing (Old Seventy Creek Press), Landscape Architects (Pudding House Press), and the critical book Early Music and the Aesthetics of Ezra Pound. His poetry and essays have appeared in The North American Review, Kestrel, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Psaltery & Lyre, The James Dickey Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, among other journals, and the collections The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VII: North Carolina; Wild Sweet Notes II: Contemporary West Virginia Writers; and Coal: An Anthology. Merritt has taught poetry in China and has been drawn to the work of Chinese Rivers and Mountain poets. He is on the eternal search for home.

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