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Marion Starling Boyer, author of The Sea Was Never Far
The poems in this collection are clearly the result of forging meticulous attention to the world - its flora and fauna, people, art-into exquisite poetry. McCormick's lines are like the lovingly executed brushstrokes of an accomplished painter. Of special note are the several persona poems, bringing the reader some unsung "celebrities" like hat muse Isabella Blow and Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's real-life Alice. The "Piano Pieces for Dogs" literally sing on the page.
Bonnie Flaig Prinsen, author of Brothers in the Water
James Scannell McCormick's First of Pisces leaves so much joy in the mouth after reading-a full tin of music, poems packed neatly like so much raw sustenance for the ear. With poems that have "defied riptide and hanging rain," McCormick's deft linework and vocabulary, often tightly and impressively formal, lay bare a world and a voice darkening with life still crisp on the "prairie's mad/bordering, the bleakness of its flat ache." I'm going to be singing these lines in my sleep-I don't want them to leave me.
Josh Roark, editor of Frontier Poetry
Author: James Scannell McCormick
ISBN-10: 1952326249
ISBN-13: 9781952326240
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15d
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