Monica's Overcoat of Flesh by Geraldine Clarkson Donald Gardner compelling

compelling

full of wisdom and wry humor” (Irish Literary Supplement

Nominy-Dominy

but brought alive in all their rawness and visceral challenge

Monica's Overcoat of Flesh by Geraldine Clarkson Donald Gardner compellingThis remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarkson is an exploration of enclosure and freedom, of what is life affirming and what is life suppressing, of emptiness and profusion, of silence and music, and of the impermanence and wonder of the flesh. These poems contain the uncontainable; spellbound and courageous, they roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory and the truth towers of the self, surveying matters of faith,