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In original imagery and moving rhythms, the poems capture the lives of ordinary people.
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Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison
by Kevin Bowen
“His poems about Vietnam convey the experience of war, but they also portray the country, its myths, its colors, its tragic history, and its graceful, resilient people.” -- The Boston Irish Reporter
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Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison presents carefully crafted poems of leave-taking and of return, poems that record the experience of rural and urban isolation, of dislocation and violence, the histories of war and reconciliation in our century.
These poems bear witness to the way people endure and continue to love in a century of upheaval. They focus on the three central geographies of Kevin Bowen's life -- Viet Nam, Ireland and Boston -- capturing in original imagery and moving rhythms the lives of ordinary people in fishing villages or city tenements, and expressing the drama of soldiers and civilians caught in war and the struggles that come thereafter.
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