Find A Place That Could Pass For Home |
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Glenn Shea |
ISBN: 978-1-907056-54-3 Page Count: 86 Publication Date: Friday, October 01, 2010 Cover Artwork: Samuel Palmer, A Hilly Scene (Copyright Tate, London 2010) |
About this Book
Find A Place That Could Pass For Home
consists of poems selected from three decades of Glenn Shea's work.
They draw largely on a sense of places lived and sights seen - from the
rooms of the poet Machado in Segovia to sheep-shearing in the Scottish
Highlands, taking in his home territory in New England and a memorial to
death camp victims in Paris. 'What the world is, we did not suspect.'
There are encounters and characters: a visionary local, the wife of a
terrorist, a dying man recalling the words of Homer, a Shin Buddhist
mendicant, and poems of friendship and romantic loss: 'Even of our few
words, given/ who spoke them, nothing is waste.' |
Author Biography
Glenn Shea
was born and has lived most of his life in Connecticut. He has worked
in the library of a cancer clinic and in the French department of a
foreign-language bookshop, washed dishes in the Scottish Highlands, gone
to pilgrim's mass in Santiago and eaten really good Tex-Mex in Chengdu.
He has read his poetry in venues ranging from the Harvard Divinity
School to Shakespeare and Company in Paris. He is living for the moment
in an old farmhouse in Uncasville and works with a group of illuminati
in a huge used-book shop in Niantic, Connecticut. He has published two
chapbooks. Find A Place That Could Pass For Home is his first full-length collection.
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