Mass of the Forgotten
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Autumn House Press
Published:31st Dec '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
James Tolan's debut full-length collection exibits eloquent and direct language to explore family trauma and personal memory. Tolan has a truly unique voice and his poems offer readers something they won't find elsewhere.
"In the spirit of Whitman, Olds, and Levine, Tolan’s first book of poems draws in conceits and concerns from the grit and sweat of the physical world. But it is also a haunting metaphysical litany…'We are the new Jehovahs, gods of vengeance and small mercies,' he reminds us, 'who rose from the sea and walked, our lips salted thick with want.' His praise of the physical world is exacting enough to transport us to an Eden where flesh still collides, in ways unexpected, with spirit." —Dorianne Laux
ISBN: 9781932870916
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
80 pages