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Crucifixes: & Other Friday Poems

Crucifixes: & Other Friday Poems

McAuliffe, M. F.

Paperback

Religion General General Poetry

ISBN10: 1684195381
ISBN13: 9781684195381
Publisher: Waldorf Pub
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

Only my contradictions hold me upright, claims one of the poems in this ferociously lucid and often funny new volume by M.F. McAuliffe. On the one hand it batters us with Lear-like bleak assertions (Time and heaven and earth are stones. / They grind us between them) -- assertions it goes on to illustrate, most impressively, in the final series of poems retelling the Orpheus myth. On the other hand, the very rhythm, almost reassuring, of other aphoristic conclusions suggests an admiration despite everything for the world it so passionately curses and condemns (to walk through the city and know it for rubble-- / This is a dream as old as the soul). -- Luisa Valenzuela, author of Clara, Strange Things Happen Here, The Lizard's Tail, Black Novel (with Argentines), and Deathcats

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