Spooky Action: poems

Einstein spoke dismissively of "spooky action at distance," the idea that separate objects could somehow share a simultaneous condition across space and time, or what is sometimes referred to as quantum entanglement. Yet the phrase persists and serves as a powerful metaphor for the work poetry does. In John Mulrooney's amazing new book, lyric performs this entanglement, bridging distant states of mind and registers of experience with a swiftness and a surprise that is indeed spooky. ... The suffering and loss of this world haunts these poems with an elemental pathos, the power of a fading logos written in the language of ghosts who still speak out of the dark in a human voice. -Patrick PritchettSAMPLE POEM: Poem After Solstice for John WienersA storm is a rhetorical device, a retrieval of lost syllables, rain foils the foliage to beand it's got something up my sleeve.The year I was borna god sauntered down the boardwalkon Revere Beach and stole your girlwith his stare.I retained nothing I stared atthat year or the nextalthough it's likely most of what I did was stare;an impregnable embrace of the world that those around me probably called wonder.The first propriety squandered.

• | Author: John Mulrooney
• | Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 124 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1953252818
• | ISBN-13: 9781953252814