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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Breakfast at Denny's

Breakfast at Denny's

McGarrah, Jim

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0983971587
ISBN13: 9780983971580
Publisher: Ink Brush Press
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Jim McGarrah's third poetry collection, the present is often eclipsed by the ghosted past of Vietnam. These vital poems dwell in the inevitable privacy of being human, and it is in these starkly singular spaces-walking the dog, truckstopping for breakfast, closing the bar at 2 am, visiting Vietnamese children suffering the effects of Agent Orange-that McGarrah wrestles truth with music, grit and wry humor. As the poet sways between sobriety and stupor, bearing witness to the horror of being alive and the horror of going on, he too leads us through that slim midnight portal into rugged grace, where a worn ball cap becomes a whiskey-washed Eucharist and the cast of the missing creates the genius of absence. When transcendence comes, it is no lavish exaltation, but something far more real and astonishing.

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