The Land of Give and Take
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In The Land of Give and Take, Tyler Farrell’s second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish, professors and proles. Their stories are told by an acute narrator, or often by the characters themselves, and as one poem says, “someone buys the story.” The reader buys these stories for their authenticity and pathos. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the churches claims, but recognizing that nothing else gives weight and meaning to the lives of these transient personalities.
ISBN
978-1-907056-95-6
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
City
Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
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Table of Contents
I. The Honest to God Truth
A Found Postcard
The Influence of Joyce and Clarke on the Loss of My Faith
The Truth of Angels and Ravens
Ode to Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet (May Day 1673)
Mid-Afternoon at a Barn Outside Platteville
Three Poems for James Liddy
Three Poems for Joyce and Beckett
Up the Minute News Reporting
The True Nature of Catholicism
Jane Gallop's Phone Monkey
Mass in Rice Lake, Wisconsin
Looking for the Ghost of Fr. Roseliep
On Hearing that an Old Hotel in Downtown Dubuque is Scheduled for Demolition
Five Short Poems
The Fleeting Avenues of Summer
The Burning Shadow
Hymn to a Martyr
The Lord Giveth (Poem for Michael Hartnett)
Poem for Lorine Niedecker
God's Chosen People
Poem in Honor of Austin Clarke's Reverence
A Topic for the Confessional
Writing Grants for Notebooks
The Renovation of the Shelbourne Hotel
Lent
Three Catholic Prayers
The Lives of the City, Long Forgotten
Cameras One through Five
II. Journals to __________
I Have spent My Life Going Through Withdrawal over Someone I Almost Fell in Love With
I Wrestled With You in this Poem
Midday Marauders
Pray Let Me Know
The Pleasure and Pains of Lust
Lockstep Love
Three Short Poems
Months of Petals
Milwaukee Afterparty I Should Have Avoided
The Land of Give and Take (Trinity)
III. The Exaggeration of Everything
The Mystery and the Truth
Change the Gait of My Life
The Navigators
Long Sleeve Black Shirt
Elizabeth Bowen's Rome
More Swift to Run Than Birds to Fly
The Development of History
Thoughts in an Empty Bar after Thanksgiving
High School Confessional
Something I Heard
The Sorrowful Mysteries
Old Growth Forests like Days in the Afternoon
Three Poems for Train Travel
Four Short Poems
The Man Who Shot John Lennon
Postcard Written After Viewing the Books of Kells
About the Author