Poetry. "Yes, these poems glow with what is most tender in Lorca; but they also strut with what is most wiseass in O'Hara; they brood with what is most earnest in Akhmatova. In this book one hears the footsteps of all the teachers and friends and loved ones and strangers that people Sean Thomas Dougherty's mind (the blood's library) and heart (the blood's dancehall); one recognizes them as the footsteps of our own wide-opened, inescapable world"--Terrance Hayes.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of eleven books including Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (BOA Editions, 2010), Broken Hallelujahs (2007 BOA Editions), the novella THE BLUE CITY (2008 Marick Press), and the poetry collection NIGHTSHIFT BELONGING TO LORCA (Mammoth Books, 2004). A former high school dropout and factory worker, he is the Assistant Director for Creative Writing at Penn State Erie.
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Pass the Duende, Please,
This review is from: Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Paperback)
For those who bemaon the death of poetry, this book might let them know that poetry still has a lot of soul, of what Lorca called duende. Traversing all sorts of poetic styles--from traditional forms to short free verse lyrics to prose poems--these are poems with a bit of funk, a lot of heart, and a great ear. Dougherty is able to capture the right bit of working class (the nightshift) and the scholarly (Lorca), and find where the two meet--in poetry, yes, surely; but also in love, in music, in dreaming. This is poetry that dares someone to say the artform is dead or unimportant.
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