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Golden Crumbs - Long Island Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781977292643
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is Dave Daly's second collection of poems, bringing musicality and rhythm to varied themes such as mortality, natural wonder, aging, family history, and the interplay of lives at the intersection between city and country that is Long Island. Its imagery is vivid and memorable, with cinematic visual detail that lingers long after reading. It provides a conversational voice, the author's authentic and human emotion is cohesive through searching poems that artfully explore existential tension and contrast in coastal settings, forests, and urban landscapes.
The collection balances philosophical reflection with grounded physical imagery such as beaches, marshes, storms, wildlife, trains, coffee shops, suburban life and others. Mr. Daly reveals a masculine emotional vulnerability rarely explored openly in contemporary poetry and the poems feel lived-in rather than academically manufactured. Poems such as Coffee in St. Pete reverberate with brief, concrete imagery revealing acute philosophical insights, while others such as Heartland Station provide visual experiences that linger. You can reimagine the fascination of Long Island's great, Whitman, restlessly searching and observing, while taking in this poet's writings.
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