Catching Bodies

By Phillip Mahony

Book Overview

At a time when the rest of the field has retired from the world, and is back in the lab dissecting language as if participles were frogs, Phillip Mahony is out there on the street, his life on the line, Catching Bodies. I guess somebody will call this crime literature. I guess they should. Certainly Mahony's poems ring more true than even the exciting novels of an Elmore Leanard, or a particularly good script on either Miami Vice or Hill Street Blues. --Bob Callahan, Callahan's Irish Quarterly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938190555
• ISBN13: 9780938190554
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Phillip Mahoney demonstrates the art of poetry

With the blast of a 12 guague point blank. His work comes straight off the street, undiluted by romanticism or the glorification of violence. Its an attempt to convey the life of a beat coop without cliche or comedy. Mahoneys poetry is a self defense reaction against the unbearable senslessness of suffering. He cannot save souls, he can only catch the bodies