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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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One-Legged Poetry

One-Legged Poetry

Monahan, Jacko

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0998482919
ISBN13: 9780998482910
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: May 4 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
To experience Jacko Monahan reading his poetry live, which he did every month for more than twenty years at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, N.J., was to experience what a number of auditors have called his word-uzi. In One-Legged Poetry: Tragedy, Politics & a Sea Monster, Monahan has published his first full collection of poems, so that readers can experience his highly readable work in print virtually for the first time. Jacko once said, Life is pain, and you have to learn how to survive it. The poems in One-Legged Poetry are, more than any others he has written, about working through pain-the pain of losing his sight, the opening of old tar burns on his legs, and the loss of his leg to flesh-eating bacteria, all the while remaining intensely alive, human, and creative. Monahan's voice is unique and powerful and these poems break new ground.

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