God sometimes speaks to me with the voice of Carl Furillo
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God sometimes speaks to me with the voice of Carl Furillo
It’s rare to find a book of poetry that successfully rewrites mythology by engaging contemporary questions and beliefs. Too often it seems writers are content to revisit the already written lives of mythological figures instead of using their outlines to challenge our perception of past and present. For the latter, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red comes to mind as does, now, Jason McCall’s Dear Hero,--a stunning and subversive collection that re-imagines parts of the author’s life through classical and comic heroes. Winner of the 2012 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, the book should have garnered more attention over the past two years. What McCall does in fewer than sixty pages is far from easy: give new life to characters that have been written about so much it’s nearly impossible to avoid clichĂ©.Congratulations, Jason!