Make Anything Whole - Softcover

Walsh, Brendan

4.8

5 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990784207 ISBN 13: 9780990784203

Publisher: Five Oaks Press, 2015

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Brendan Walsh’s Make Anything Whole is crafted from the best facets of both travel writing and the poetry of place. Among these pages, readers find the estranged familiarity of coming back to one's home and country after traveling abroad. Taking us on the road as he experiences Laos, Korea, and then re-experiences the United States, Walsh chronicles the characters he meets along the way and ultimately discovers that you can take home with you wherever you go. His life-affirming experiences are set against a backdrop of interactions told through the sociological poetic eye.

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About the Author:

Brendan Walsh has been an English Instructor in South Korea, a Fulbright English teacher in Laos, and an aimless vagabond throughout the United States. After graduating from Hartwick College, he went on to earn his MFA from Southern Connecticut State University, where he now works in International Education. Walsh has been a featured reader at The New American Writing Festival and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s Connecticut Young Poets Day. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut Review, Cobalt Review, and elsewhere. When he is not training for amateur Strongman competitions or writing poems, his life is a cycle of existential crises and brilliant epiphanies.

Review:

"Brendan Walsh's richly freighted lines bring immediacy of place, of travel, of recollection. This accomplished collection gathers. . . his ventures into cities rich and squalid, among women who tend the stifling, sensual rice fields. . . his life-studies of people caught where modernity grates against ancient, often exotic ways." -Robert Bensen, author of Orenoque, Wetumka, and Other Poems

"Make Anything Whole teaches us how to cherish moments of communion...whether experienced in Laos, South Korea or in America. Before we can learn what unifies us as human beings, we have to be quiet, to hear our differences in order to honor them...Teaching us how to stay centered, how to rise, the music and wisdom in this shimmering collection of poems linger first in the ear, but finally anchor in the heart." -Vivian Shipley, author of All of Your Messages Have Been Erased

"...these poems present ripe fruit for meditation. Though Walsh's writing is filled with contradictions, so is life, and it is Walsh's willingness to bring us this collage of conflicting and coordinating ideas and images that makes his collection a worthwhile read." --Blotterature

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