Poetry. Winner of the 2004 New Issues Poetry Prize. Judge: Rodney Jones. "Kevin Boyle's poems are edgy and sometimes gritty as they cut to the bone of human experience--love, fatherhood, and work. These stunning poems offer the sweep of history as well as the inward gaze. Like many of our favorite Irish and Irish-American poets, Boyle is a great storyteller, and narratives and incidents he records in the poems are unforgettable. The beautiful surfaces of his work often serve to make the water appear safe for the reader--all ...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2004 New Issues Poetry Prize. Judge: Rodney Jones. "Kevin Boyle's poems are edgy and sometimes gritty as they cut to the bone of human experience--love, fatherhood, and work. These stunning poems offer the sweep of history as well as the inward gaze. Like many of our favorite Irish and Irish-American poets, Boyle is a great storyteller, and narratives and incidents he records in the poems are unforgettable. The beautiful surfaces of his work often serve to make the water appear safe for the reader--all the while peril reigns below"--Stuart Dischell.
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I'm more than a little biased, I'm sure, since he was my academic advisor in college, but I've had plenty of other teachers that I liked as people whose writing I didn't like as much. Not so with Boyle. He may do strange accents in class and seem like a scatterbrained Shakespearean actor with mad scientist hair in person, but underneath that overall craziness is a poet, with a sure eye for detail, and a mind that finds just the right word/line break/sound/idea to just make a poem sing. That's why you should get this book. Not because of Kevin Boyle the person (although he's nice too), but because the poems in this book are so fresh and real and sometimes gritty and sometimes lofty but always true. Always true.