Magnum Mysterium
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Magnum Mysterium

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
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Magnum Mysterium

About this book

Magnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie O'Callaghan's first collection since Tell Me Normal: New & Selected Poems (2008). Her new poems have evolved from the early monologues – written in American demotic – to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis O'Driscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for the absurdities of modern life – including the grieving process where she can "see" her husband alive and doing what he loves. In Magnum Mysterium Julie O'Callaghan has continued writing poems which 'seem effortless and are immediately accessible and achieve great emotional weight by the lightest of means' (Michael Hartnett Award citation)

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781780375144
eBook ISBN
9781780375151
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

AFTER DENNIS O’DRISCOLL

Magnum Mysterium

BEYOND

Oh Dennis, I dream of you
in the northwest provinces
beyond communication
with the known world.
Who do you speak with?
In what language?
I’m sure you forget all about us
here in the ocean
surrounded by sea monsters.
I eat bowls of food
alone at the table
wondering where you are
my husband.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

The rattling keys
in my hand
I come
to our front door
enter
and
lock myself in
set the alarm
and commence
my Life Sentence.

PREDICTION

The Mayans
foretold
the end of the world
for December 21st 2012.
Credit where it’s due:
They weren’t far off.
The end of OUR world:
December 24th 2012.

NUCLEAR BOMBS 2

The nuns
taught us
to sit on the stairs
and cover our heads
in the event
of a communist
bomb attack
reciting Holy Phrases.
I sit on the stairs
I cover my head
and say over and over
– you will
never
come
back.

CAN I BE HONEST WITH YOU?

I’m not doing all that well.
I bow my head –
there is nothing I can see.
I can not look
at these rooms you lived in
I can’t look
at the chair you sat in
(your tweed jacket where you left it)
– what use would that be?
I bow my head
in this town we lived in
on this road you walked on
What is possible?
Not this.
I can’t look anywhere.

FORMATIONS

Den, there go those
damn birds
squawking and fl...

Table of contents

  1. Description
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Island Life
  7. Sitting in a Cloud
  8. Voyage
  9. After Gulliver
  10. MAXIMUM CAR WASH
  11. Zen Christmas
  12. Norman Rockwell’s Apples
  13. Riddle
  14. No Longer with Us
  15. Horse Power
  16. The Day
  17. Floating World
  18. Headlights
  19. The Bridge-Tender I Didn’t Call Dad
  20. News
  21. Beside Me
  22. Unfunny
  23. Last 4th
  24. Stay
  25. Ship
  26. Garden Daydream
  27. Bruisers with Groceries
  28. Ice Age
  29. Seasonal Affective Disorder
  30. Distant Memory
  31. New Year’s Omens
  32. Hidden
  33. 21st Century Pillow Book
  34. Departure Drama
  35. Mother in a Twister
  36. Broken
  37. Call
  38. Early on Indian Hill
  39. Teensy Tomatoes
  40. Perfect World
  41. Festivities
  42. Purchasing Vittles
  43. At Whole Foods
  44. Nuclear Bombs
  45. A Cabin in the Berkshires
  46. United Nations
  47. Peaceful Valley
  48. Check the Fridge
  49. Mystery
  50. Babu will show you to your room
  51. AFTER DENNIS O’DRISCOLL
  52. About the Author
  53. Copyright