Incommunicado, yes. But not in the way one might first guess. The poems in Keith O'Shaughnessy's collection are...accessible and memorable, full of vivid images...These are poems —in the tradition of Augustine, Lao Tzu, Christian mystics, Zen—about the ineffable, that which must be spoken to but cannot be spoken of.
Ifeanyi Menkiti
Keith O'Shaughnessy's book of poems Incommunicado is a marvel of craft and passion...These poems are bold, they are well made, and they dare the reader to drop everything and join the dance. ...
Incommunicado, yes. But not in the way one might first guess. The poems in Keith O'Shaughnessy's collection are...accessible and memorable, full of vivid images...These are poems —in the tradition of Augustine, Lao Tzu, Christian mystics, Zen—about the ineffable, that which must be spoken to but cannot be spoken of.
Ifeanyi Menkiti
Keith O'Shaughnessy's book of poems Incommunicado is a marvel of craft and passion...These poems are bold, they are well made, and they dare the reader to drop everything and join the dance.
Rachel Hadas
Keith O'Shaughnessy has composed Incommunicado with extraordinary thoroughness. Sensuous images, swelling syntax, and haunting recurrences are here organized into a set of varied patterns at once intricate, gorgeous, and rigid. Incommunicado arranges its pardoxical shards—art, appetite, beauty, decay—into a lush and austere design. I know of no book like it.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780983451303
Publisher: Grolier Book Shop
Publication date: 4/28/2011
Pages: 88
Sales rank: 339,480
Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.30 (d)
Meet the Author
Keith O'Shaughnessy teaches English at Camden County College in southern New Jersey. His poems have appear in Columbia Magazine, Measure, and Able Muse. He is also the author of three chapbooks—Carnaval, The Devil's Party, and Snegurachka—all published by Pudding House Publications. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the winner of the First Grolier Discovery Award 2011, given by the Grolier Pioetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Ma.
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H.L. Hix
Incommunicado, yes. But not in the way one might first guess. The poems in Keith O'Shaughnessy's collection are...accessible and memorable, full of vivid images...These are poems —in the tradition of Augustine, Lao Tzu, Christian mystics, Zen—about the ineffable, that which must be spoken to but cannot be spoken of.Ifeanyi Menkiti
Keith O'Shaughnessy's book of poems Incommunicado is a marvel of craft and passion...These poems are bold, they are well made, and they dare the reader to drop everything and join the dance. ...