Moving House - Softcover

O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934999725 ISBN 13: 9781934999721

Publisher: Word Poetry, 2009

Synopsis

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell's Moving House is a book of dark, defiant memory: “We lived and died by stories in that house.” These spare, taut poems evoke their stories with powerful economy.

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From the Back Cover:

There is more than a touch of Elizabeth Bishop in these carefully constructed poems by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell. A quiet, but profound power is released in poem after poem as the poet exercises her talent for finding the unexpected blessings secreted within all the moments of our lives - even those that are most quotidian. From the tiny "pleasure of slicing celery" to the "tornado that ripped/ the roof off your life," O'Donnell's poetic world is continually replenished by a spiritual omnipresence that manifests itself as ordinary and domestic, but is nothing less transformative than grace.

Kate Daniels, author of FOUR TESTIMONIES


In Moving House, her aptly-named first book of poems, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell demonstrates both her versatility and her mettle, flint-fiery and tender by turns. Here is a collection of grace-filled, gritty, vulnerable lyrics, rife with surprises at every turn, inscribed in a language we quickly come to trust. Here is the record of someone who has been through the fire and the pit, and emerged--thanks to a fierce wit and a hard-won faith--whole and healing. Hers is a welcome addition to the great tradition of religious poets, writing in an idiom we will recognize, a voice as much at home with Dante as with Melville and Van Gogh.
Paul Mariani , author of Deaths and Transfigurations

About the Author:

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell teaches English, Creative Writing, and interdisciplinary courses in American Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City.  Her book, Moving House, was published by WORD PRESS in 2009, and two chapbooks, Mine (2007) and Waiting for Ecstasy (2009), were published by Finishing Line Press and Franciscan University Press.  Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including America, Comstock Review, First Things, Hawaii Pacific Review, Pedestal Magazine.com, Potomac Review, RUNES, and Xavier Review.  Her second full-length collection of poems, Saint Sinatra, will be published by WORD PRESS in 2011.

About this edition

• Publisher: Word Poetry
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1934999725
• ISBN 13: 9781934999721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102