Semibreve

By John F. Deane

The poems in this new collection from John F. Deane combine a lyrical grace with a fiercely questing intelligence, pushing against the mysteries of faith in a fractured world, paying tribute to the value of human life and love. Woven throughout the book is a thread of elegy for the poet's brother, who died of cancer in 2010. The collection concludes with a sequence describing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Throughout, Deane gives poetic voice to the paradox of human existence as simultaneously "blessed and broken."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847772692
• ISBN13: 9781847772695
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"