Lucky Witness

by Kathleen Lynch

One senses that Kathleen Lynch -- in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book -- intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In "Throes," she says, "The saint flung himself / into a thorn bush to incur / wounds worthy of his joy." Lynch's poems have that kind of complexity, and seem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421836262
• ISBN13: 9781421836263
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Blue Light Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"