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Lucky Witness

Lucky Witness

Lynch, Kathleen

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1421836262
ISBN13: 9781421836263
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

One senses that Kathleen Lynch -- in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book -- intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In Throes, she says, The saint flung himself / into a thorn bush to incur / wounds worthy of his joy. Lynch's poems have that kind of complexity, and seem to know We need a face / to express the hidden / face. When that face is found, as it often is in these poems, it contains a voice, which can make us smile as well as wince at life's absurdities.

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