‘Mink Eyes’ introduces us to Dan Flanigan the novelist. ‘Tenebrae’ shows us another side of Dan – the poet. The lead poem in this collection, ‘Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death,’ is a lovely bracelet of verse and prose poems that link brilliantly together in a gripping narrative and wrenching emotional journey through the illness and death of his wife. Other poems in the book – including several snapshot portraits of Dan’s extended family under the title ‘The Irish in America’ – reflect this same grappling with the fundamental issues of our lives – loss, change, growth, hope, despair and acceptance, reflecting throughout a compassionate embrace of the human condition. These are truly poems for the people – plain but exquisitely crafted, direct as a dagger, and expressed in a language that is both elegant and easy to understand at the same time. They reach from the heart to the heart.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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