Al Maginnes
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Remarkable for their dark, sharp wit, their stylistic unity, and their combination of sweetness and risk, the poems in <i>The Light in Our Houses</i>
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probe the intersection of public and private history, and visit the way stories are told: “what we have named history / was once only the braided rivers / of people’s lives, currents that brimmed / fast and dangerous, then emptied / into the wide blank spill of ocean.” Voicing a disdain for conclusions — “the gaudy clothes we wrap narrative in” — Al Maginnes writes poems that carry the weight of parables.
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