Telling Time by the Shadows [Paperback]

J.M. FitzGerald (Author)

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John FitzGerald's Telling Time by the Shadows is an unusually frank confrontation with God. FitzGerald's poems challenge the emptiness of the universe, questioning how we can intuit God's presence in the shadows.

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A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, John M. FitzGerald is a poet and attorney in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Spring Water, a novel in verse, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005. Telling Time by the Shadows is his second book of poetry. His other collections include The Mind, The Charter of Effects, Question Creation and The Zeroth Law. He recently completed his first novel, Primate, and turned it into a screenplay. He has lived in England and Italy, and currently resides in Santa Monica.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (March 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934999032
• ISBN-13: 978-1934999035
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,356,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry par excellence, January 2, 2010

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Without exception poetry pulls a person out of their cognitive and emotional equilibrium, and given that, it is never surprising to find that poetry is always surprising. It is always innovative and as such, refreshing. It is the antithesis of the conservative, always forsaking and rejecting the past. It is conceptual blending at its best, and in poetry the reader can extract exclusively and arbitrarily from the written text. Pure anarchy of thought is possible, even desirable.

This book is poetry par excellence. Within its pages, the reader can lay his beliefs on their deathbed, greet the author with a translated handshake, with the translation possibly indiscernible and idiosyncratic. The reader can find herself stranded in the text, and never to be saved purely by a tale, but can find his path via the author's paved mental roads. The reader can gasp for breath as if drowning, not in water but in words, but there is always just enough air, and the reader's feelings can be momentarily suspended, only to find them again hyperactive and delightfully out of control. With the book covers open and the pages turning the reader's feelings will be a combinatorics of sensations, arbitrarily entangled with each other, and will encounter an effective statistical sample of the uncountable cardinality of (poetic) truths, and will be blown by strong symbolic winds from one mood to another.