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Article: Clay Vessels and Other Poems.(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
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- May 3, 1996
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I am not expert enough to say if Father McNamee's poetry is "good" in any formal sense. My own clumsy attempts at sonnet writing have always left me frustrated by an incapacity to write fourteen lines on a single subject that scan, much less wrapping the whole thing up with a rhyming couplet. Nonetheless, I greatly admired his Diary of a City Priest (1993) in which this Philadelphia inner-city parish priest views his world with such an unerring eye. To that work of prose we can now add this volume.
Many of the poems are about people whom I treasure (Simone Weil; Henri de Lubac; Franz Jagerstatter; Graham Greene; Thomas Merton; Matthew Kelty) and places that have ...
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