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Poetry. The poems in THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.
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“As the title suggests, the poet’s quest is familial, but it is also poetic. In a way, the poetic mentors McIntosh invokes (such as Allen Ginsberg and David Ignatow) are like fathers, or at least older brothers, to him. A sort of detective, McIntosh uses whatever tools are available to shed light on his family and poetic pasts.... The innovation of this work is most apparent when McIntosh combines as many methods as possible into one piece.”—Erica Wright, ForeWord The likely, the incongruous; the teasing facticity of the mind; sorrow and exhultation: these are what McIntosh demands of us.- Burt Kimmelman
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Sandy McIntosh's collections of poetry include ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), 237 More Reasons to Have Sex (with Denise Duhamel), FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH and nine other books, including a Chinese cookbook, as well as software programs, including Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! He has published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He has been managing editor of Confrontation magazine, and is publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.
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- PublisherMarsh Hawk Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0975919741
- ISBN 13 9780975919743
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages88
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