Rooster

Overview

A remarkable collection about love, art, nature, and family, this book of poems observes with painterly precision the commonplaces of experience, creating landscapes of emotional range and intensity. Biography, history, and geography are interwoven in potent new forms: a lover’s fragile caress, the skills of a dentist, the death of irony celebrated by crows, and a green tree burning in a red room. Novel experiences and ancient panoramas embolden the second and third sections of the book while two concluding sections offer expansive, rehabilitated vistas of a world that is haunting and new.

Reviews

"His clear eye and unfussy writing invite re-reading, and each page unveils another small epiphany."  —Peggy Hughes, author, Scotland on Sunday

Author Biography

Gerry McGrath is a modern languages teacher, the author of A to B, and the recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award. His poetry has also been featured in New Poetries IV.