Denial

by Daniel Mahoney

Overview

In this first volume of poems to a dear friend who passed away, Daniel Mahoney offers an expression of grief, a journey of understanding, a landmark in his identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888701614
Publisher:	En Route Books and Media, LLC
Publication date:	05/08/2024
Series:	A Dear Friend , #1
Pages:	44
Sales rank:	143,468
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Daniel Mahoney is a husband, father, and a poet. He writes about beauty in the simplicities of life and gives voice to the experience of grief. Daniel seeks to increase the awareness of grief and calls people to encounter our Lord amidst their sorrows. He is a practicing Catholic in the Diocese of Madison where he lives with his wife and two boys.

Editorial Reviews

To the poet, such as Mahoney, is given the special task of sharing truths that otherwise would be relegated to the darkness of the night. Mahoney writes of the original striving for the wholeness of the primordial garden, with a light-touch and an insightful mind. He stands with eyes wide open to the eternal risk of living and the grace to be found in embracing that reality. His poems are ardent, honest, and sure to find understanding with anyone who has ever loved deeply and suffered well.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/adearfriendvol1/ - Rachel Heise

Daniel Mahoney's poetry captures in a memory the hollow feelings we may not have acknowledged as grief; the refusing to believe that the lost isn't just in another room, or across the state, on vacation; putting into words, too, the hollow fears of other griefs we don't recognize: fear, knowledge, failure, spiritual battle, dreams, and the longing for heaven, all becoming something of a vessel in which to place our pain, like the jars of water at Cana - they will be turned from pain into beauty.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/adearfriendvol1/ - Grace Bourget

Under an anagram of his name, Mahoney's Denial shows you how prosody can erase the wrinkles of grief; the rhyme and rhythm of dactyls and trochees transforming emotions into the music of the garden; of leaf and flower. Of love. And Peace. Mahoney looks beyond that transformation of grief to 'Something different, something more. What lies behind another door.' He sees in his new discovered prosody a paradox, the 'Word made flesh.' He thus guides grief to even more sacred shores.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/adearfriendvol1/ - Ivan Arthur

In Daniel Mahoney's A Dear Friend: Denial, there is the beginning of an analysis of grief, particularly the loss of a father as a son is beginning to emerge into who he is, like a chrysalis turning butterfly and discovering a certain unintelligibility as the parent is no longer there. Through it all, there is the relationship to Christ - as if He only becomes clear as his father goes. So, join the poet's pursuit but be willing to be pursued by your vocation.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/adearfriendvol1/ - Francis Etheredge

Daniel Mahoney, in this impressive first collection of five volumes on grief, is the right poet to tackle the subject 'Denial,' because he has a searingly honest voice, which is the only kind that could do justice to a phase of grief that few can authentically confront in memory, let alone art. I am asked to write endorsements of poetry collections frequently...and I must say, there is unique brilliance in this volume not often seen.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/adearfriendvol1/ - Annabelle Moseley