Eamon Grennan writes that the poems in A Quorum of Saints may comprise -the most unusual and entertaining Lives of the Saints ever written.- Grennan goes on to say this: -Rennie McQuilkin has composed a spirited set of short, often humorous biographies of energetic, eccentric men and women caught up in and confronting--whether in legend or fact--the toils of their own times, from the First Century A.D. to the present day. With the down-to-earth St. Francis as a kind of spiritual guide, the poet mixes the comic with the awful, the tender with the unimaginably violent, the...
Eamon Grennan writes that the poems in A Quorum of Saints may comprise -the most unusual and entertaining Lives of the Saints eve...
This is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. The work is both accessible and resonant, witty and lyrical. About it, Eamon Grennan has said, "Rennie McQuilkin offers us poems of a grainy, poised, exacting honesty. There's a Shaker furniture feel to their mix of plainness and grace. Grounded and unabashedly local, these poems are also 'at home in the sky' and 'in touch with everywhere, ' providing a deep reading of a truly examined life. McQuilkin balances with elegance the practical, erotic, and mindful zones of his...
This is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. The work is both accessible an...
The dogs of DOGS sing many "Songs of Myself." The book is by turns witty, sad, joyful, lyrical, angry, and moving. There are as many moods as there are dogs. And what a dandy love affair in the midst of it all Each dog-poem is accompanied by a drawing managing to be both whimsical and accurate. But are these truly dogs, or all of us in disguise?
The dogs of DOGS sing many "Songs of Myself." The book is by turns witty, sad, joyful, lyrical, angry, and moving. There are as many moods as there...