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Exemplary Damages, by Dennis O'Driscoll; Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, about $24.
DENNIS O'DRISCOLL is one of the reasons we can continue to believe in contemporary poetry. His lucid, uncompromising, profound yet playful intelligence looks into the heart of darkness and returns to tell its tale. He is unflinchingly honest where a lesser poet would settle for the softer option, the easy resolution.
The poems in his latest collection visit familiar O' Driscoll territory--love, death, work. As I read him, he seems to be saying that there is an inevitability about life that is alleviated, if not quite redeemed, by literature (including, I believe, scripture) and ...