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    Mass of the Forgotten
    Mass of the Forgotten
    Mass of the Forgotten
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    Mass of the Forgotten

    By James Tolan

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    James Tolan's debut full-length collection exhibits eloquent and direct language to explore family trauma and personal memory. Tolan has a truly unique voice and his poems offer readers something they won't find elsewhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAutumn House Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2021
    ISBN9781637680186
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      Mass of the Forgotten - James Tolan

      MASS of the FORGOTTEN

      James Tolan

      PITTSBURGH

      Copyright © 2013 by James Tolan

      All rights reserved. No part of this book can be reproduced in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews or essays. For information contact: Autumn House Press, 5530 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15206.

      Autumn House and Autumn House Press are registered trademarks owned by Autumn House Press, a nonprofit corporation whose mission is the publication and promotion of poetry and other fine literature.

      Autumn House Press receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

      ISBN: 978-1-932870-91-6

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013942913

      All Autumn House books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the international standards for permanent books intended for purchase by libraries.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-63768-018-6 (electronic)

      Contents

      The Wind Will Undo Us

      1

      Red Walls

      Genius Loci

      How Far

      Western Civilization

      The Forest of My Hair

      Sappho, Preparations, and the Moon

      In the Sacristy

      The Gentlemanly Art of Pugilism

      On the Subject of Hogs

      Whiskey and the Rake of Mourning

      Blood Sport

      2

      The Coup

      My Father. Vietnam.

      The History of Fresh Fruit in America

      A Sense of Community

      Raising Christ

      Charred

      In the Nick of Time

      Giggles before the Void

      Celebrating Our Anniversary

      I Ate Your Pancakes

      Red Grown

      3

      The Wrong Ones

      Corpus Poetae

      Half a Man Loves a Woman in Two

      A Murder of Crows

      Caravaggio’s Thomas

      Should You Die,

      Drear Heaven

      The Meat Course

      Devil Born

      The Darkening of the Host

      Downstream

      4

      The Purple Crayon

      Kiss

      Chicago 1942

      Breath Robins

      A View to the South

      Sacrifice

      The Wind at Rest

      Returning Home

      The Return

      Inheritance

      Cemetery Plums

      Acknowledgments

      The Wind Will Undo Us

      and in exchange for what it takes of flesh and dream

      return to us the echoes

      and fragrance of what we’ve

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