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Ira Schaeffer, Winner of the LOFT Poetry Prize,
judged by Jane Lunin Perel. Book Launch reading was held at the William Hall Library, Cranston RI. Published by Poetry Loft Press.
Ira Schaeffer, author
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"We all wander the shadowland James Cronin explores in this remarkable first collection, that territory where intellect and emotion insist on one another. In poem after poem, Cronin exposes the tangle of feeling and thought we share when we consider the existential daze of our lives. Cronin works carefully. His poems are quiet, subtle, often wry and crafty, and always cultured."―Thomas Rabbitt, author of American Wake
"Time and rhyme-sensitive, the poems in this erudite, immersive collection bring yearning, skepticism, and affirmation out of the shadows and into the light. In response to a world where the "brain is capillary thin," Cronin maintains a formalist's equanimity, establishing continuity through engaged, deeply embedded cross-talks with a multitude of literary predecessors―Donne, Emerson, Dickinson, Poe, Borges, Spicer, and many others. Those who value careful attention to the potent effects of language and the intricacies of formal word play will be amply rewarded."―Catherine Imbriglio, author of Intimacy
"James Cronin's impressive first collection of poetry is haunted by a sense that we live on the edge of nothingness: "the holes in the glass / and the dread that won't pass." Poetic form, however, is his counter-weighted response to that dread. From sonnet to ghazal, from meter and rhyme to free verse, his poetry is in a restless search for the meaning that form can reveal, especially when the poet is confronted with and challenged by loss, suffering, death, and the other shadows we so often meet in this world."―Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said
"World of Shadowsis grounded in metaphysics and Milton, formed in taut lines, and girded by love. I find this book to be a record of thought―not of brief, improvisatory bleats of the mind, but a record of one human's careful progression through what he knows and what he has experienced―and then―past that―to and through what he cannot see or speak to. The poems move me to quiet. The entire book is a lovely invitation to push beyond 'mere surface.' "―Darcie Dennigan, author of Palace of Sub-Atomic Bliss
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