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Article: The knot that binds us.(Ancestor Worship)(Book review)
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- Irish Literary Supplement
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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MIKE BEGNAL
Ancestor Worship
Salmon Poetry, 2007, 12.00 [euro]
I RECEIVED MY COPY OF Ancestor Worship from Begnal in a darkened poetry bar in Manhattan. The publisher, Salmon, was celebrating the release of its new collection, and while grey-haired Irishmen read sentimental verse following Begnal's opening recitation of his own, sharper poetry, a steady bass began to insinuate itself between lines and stanzas as the dance club next door swung into the full flush of its evening business. It was a curious and funny experience: a quaint syncretism made more striking by the culturally-assumed dischord between its notes. I left not only with a smirk ...