Sean Thomas Dougherty's most recent collection of poetry is a break from the lyrical form that has made him one of the most renowned performance poets at the break of the twenty-first century. Transcendent, haunting, and beautiful, Dougherty's mastery of lyricism lends these ground-breaking prose poems a graceful movement as they interweave through the urban landscape of dreaming.
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"Given our current climate of fear and lack of compassion, Dougherty's prose poems could not arrive at a better time." --Rain Taxi, Summer 2003
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"In The Biography of Broken Things, Dougherty corrodes the fixed categories of composition. These mysterious vessels are 'things' indeed. In the midst of such volatile reagents the chemistry of the world is in play. The work opens real imagined possibilities and accesses the realm of real wonder." —Michael Martone
"Listen to Scan Thomas Dougherty—to his generous voice, his transcendent spirit, his cascade of language. Dougherty captures the mysterious beauty of gestures, moments, voices as they rub up against one another—voices of children, lives lived next door, in factories, schools, in prisons and bus stations....Dougherty gathers up all the broken pieces and makes us whole again." —Jessica Treat
"You will need to have a thing broken or two to know this collection. Dougherty takes it from there, looping his lyrical vignettes through lifespaces both poignant and affirming. These are intense moments of feeling and remembering, loving and amazing." —Keith Gilyard
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- Except by Falling by Sean Thomas Dougherty in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas in Front Matter
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Anna Akhmatova in Front Matter
- Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale in Front Matter
- Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by R S Thomas in Front Matter
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