John F Deane selects a representative core of his work. He emerges as a poet for whom the old verities retain some of their truth and the accelerating fin-de-siecle is not an unmitigated good. He explores the ways in which an individual copes in imagination and in life with pain (over the loss of a young wife) in the context of an inherited and not always answering religious faith. In a world of material progress, of wars and their consequences, of spiritual loss and in humanity, how does religious faith survive, and can it grow and intensify? Does it legitimize, or chain down the poem?
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From Galway Comes the Poet,
By Tony Parker (Greenville, NC, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems (Poetry Pleiade) (Paperback)
From Kenny's in Galway, I received a slim volume of poetry written by John F. Deane entitled "Tocatta & Fugue". Long have I been a fan of the Irish voice, almost to the point of complacency. I read my Heaney, Montague, McCabe, Carson, and others, and enjoyed completely an evening of stout and words written from the heart. Deane's volume arrived and sat upon my shelf for far too long, aging, until on a late night I pulled it down and began reading the last poem of the work, "Fugue". His rhythym, word schemes, environment, captured me. I can only reckon the spirit of the man runs deep and true. You see, on occasion the spirit of a poet touches us through a primal chord. His music is one we have shared since the begining of time, the chord struck pricks our ears and begs give listen. I suppose I should give examples of his work, and why his poetry glistens. But I won't. Rather, all I ask is that the true reader of poetry, one who is moved and says "Yes", give Deane's work a try. I say, Yes, John F. Deane's "Toccata & Fugue" is worthy of 5 stars, and should grace the shelf of true believers.
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