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Third-Class Relics
Paperback
Religion General General Poetry
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Moonpath Press
Published: Jun 30 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The pleasures provided by Scott Dalgarno's Third-Class Relics are abundant. In evidence are a discerning mind, a musical ear, a witty intellect, and a bruised but open heart.
With precise diction, compelling narratives, and smooth, inviting language, Dalgarno examines a wide array of subjects. Here is a poet at ease with unease. In one poem, he
defines limbo as a place where Kettle never boils; dog circles / and circles but never lies down. In another, he addresses an unrealized zygote this way: Your not being here / is
everywhere. For me, a good poem both entertains and disturbs, the latter by shaking us from complacency. Scott Dalgarno's book is filled with such poems. Third-Class Relics is a
first-class triumph.
-Andrea Hollander, author of And Now, Nowhere But Here
There go the swallows / taking it out on the morning, writes Dalgarno, whose collection is a stirring portrayal of a life pulled in to focus. The poems in Third-Class Relics ask us to
reckon with the lyric tension of our lives in the metaphoric borderland of so many kinds of rapture. It arrives with a fresh and clear voice that invites its reader to remember they
are always already a viewer, a visitor, and a voyeur, too.
-Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level
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