Reckonings
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Patrick Moran's fourth collection, Reckonings, traces the poet's journey from a rural upbringing, marked by religious fervor, to a world of fraught intensities and troubled legacies. Having charted his progress through a diocesan boarding school, where he takes his first, tentative steps as a poet, Moran next focuses on early adulthood, a period of existential questing and drifting, when he struggles to find a voice in the classroom and on the page. While the last section opens on a buoyant note, with a group of marriage poems, echoes of earlier turbulence are still heard, notably in "Spectral" where nightmares disrupt his sleep and memories rip open/ (his) delicate/ stitching. Indeed, the past - its mulding, its affirmations, its shadowing - pervades Moran's reckonings in this section: whether in taking stock of his teaching career; in reassessing his heritage; or brooding, characteristically, on blighted lives and might-have-beens.
As Reckonings tries to keep faith with its formative influences, the poet bears witness, in these unsparingly honest lyrics, to his life and times: turning, as he observes in "Makings",
his restless days
into jottings, numbered pages:
as if the unrecorded life
were not worth living.
As Reckonings tries to keep faith with its formative influences, the poet bears witness, in these unsparingly honest lyrics, to his life and times: turning, as he observes in "Makings",
his restless days
into jottings, numbered pages:
as if the unrecorded life
were not worth living.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1912561697
ISBN13:9781912561698
Release Date:March 2020
Publisher:Salmon Poetry
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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