MICHAEL DALEY ~

 

From what I have read of

Michael Daley's work

I believe

Romance With the Unexpected

may be his best

— it sustains 

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empty bowl

2022

AWAKENING IN 5 IRISH TOWNS ~

Awakening in 5 Irish Towns


                                                                             "Appalled: I see

                                                           the true shape of my hand"

                                                                            — Robert Sund



Cork


This morning, like other mornings,

one hand tucked into the other,

I watch tap water fill

the bowl they form,

but on its way to wash my eyes,

lifelines in the palm

foretell my heart's climate

and I spill cold water

in a puddle at my foot,

the bowl of fingers as gone

as all that was real when I dreamed.


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GO    FIND    THE    POET    IN    4    OTHER    IRISH    TOWNS

Michael Daly
Awakening in 5 Irish Towns
Empty Bowl

FINN WILCOX & FRIENDS ~

PORT TOWNSEND POETRY ~

Jefferson County Historical Society

2016

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"In the 1970s and 80s a beautiful forgotten, small town on the Olympic

Peninsula, Port Townsend, Washington, was the sight of an unusual

literary blossoming. Writers, most of them young, had started migrating to

the area in the aftermath of the sixties. The Centrum Foundation's

Writers' Conference was established and Copper Canyon Press found a

home with them. Other small presses started soon after.

In 1984, only New York City received more National Endowment of the 

Arts awards to literary presses than Port Townsend There was more than

one publisher for every 850 people of the population.

This is the story of seven of Port Townsend's presses, the people behind

them, and the magical time and place where they came into being."

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A good friend I know and who knows me knew to send me a gift of this book for Christmas.

Merry Christmas! indeed, I sat down that evening and enjoyed myself thoroughly with an

easy going and beautifully networked community of small press publishers, many starting out cutting their printing teeth on the heavy iron works of letterpress. 

These were splendid dreamers and the heart of publishing history that would have not proceeded without such dreamers.

Keep that in mind today if you are feeling down in the dumps in these times — find a letterpress, any press, and learn the hardwork and core of publishing the writings of someone you believe in.

It never gets old.

There are smashing photographs of poets, their elegant books, and conversations and reports with some of the trailblazers like Tree Swenson, Sam Hamill, Finn Wilcox, Pat Fitzgerald, Tim McNulty, Michael Daley, Mike O' Connor, Bill Porter, Steve Johnson, Rusty North, Gwen Head, Scott Walker.

Forever young.

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R E A D      M O R E !