Catching Bodies [Paperback]

Phillip Mahony (Author)

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3 Memories Of Geraldine
The Academy
Almos Every Cat
Anjali
Anjali 18 Months Old
Anjali Five Weeks Old
Anjali One Year Old
Anjali Three Months Old
Balinvoher
The Big Apple
Blunt Trauma
Bushwick Names
Catching Bodies
Complaint #13485, 77 Pct., 10/23/81
Confession
D.o.a.
Doing It For Practice In Brooklyn North
Eastern Parkway
Fabien
Girl With Apples
Glendahalan
House
If I Knew Mountains
In Memory Of Irma Lazado
The Investigation
Medical Examiner's Morgue New York, 11/20/80
Mobster Slain With Shotgun
The Monitor And The Merrimac
On Company Time
On Giving A Poetry Reading At Arthurkill Correctional
On Seeing Geraldine Again
A Photograph Of An Old Irish Farmer Taken In Kerry ...
The Rematch
To Dave, In Love, From Phill, In Ireland
Trapper Returning
Visions Of My Father And My Son
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (May 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938190555
• ISBN-13: 978-0938190554
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,178,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Phillip Mahoney demonstrates the art of poetry, January 11, 1999

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This review is from: Catching Bodies (Paperback)

With the blast of a 12 guague point blank. His work comes straight off the street, undiluted by romanticism or the glorification of violence. Its an attempt to convey the life of a beat coop without cliche or comedy. Mahoneys poetry is a self defense reaction against the unbearable senslessness of suffering. He cannot save souls, he can only catch the bodies