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It Takes One to Know One: Poetry & Prose,Used
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Michael Lally, winner of an American Book Award for his Black Sparrow debut, It's Not Nostalgia, evinces the same stunning honesty and selfanalytical clarity in this powerful new collection of autobiographical poetry and prose. Retracing his wandering lifepath from a rough IrishCatholic boyhood in a workingclass suburb of Newark, N.J., through turbulent years of radical political engagement in Washington, D.C., strugglingpoet bohemianism in New York and elusive brushes with moviestar fame in Hollywood, Lally finally circles back to his home turf of South Orange, an older and wiser man.If in the chapter, Lally's Alley, the authors large family owned the eponymous block on which they lived, so too does Lally own this work. The book's melange of vignettes, poems, tracts, and reminiscences is daring to say the least; still, sprawling like the Lally clan, these variegated ruminations do cohere.Lally is a fierce writer and intellect. His IrishAmerican heritage is a recurring theme, but it provides a jumpingoff point for exploring the American Way and the different American Zeitgeists the author has witnessed, rather than acting as a limiting agent. Though his Newark Poem explains that the speaker has waited all his life in Jersey for the great cities of the world to come to him, It Takes One to Know One rises above New Jersey and indeed even America as Lally plumbs the soul of his people, his country and himself, creating a world much like the Paradise found in Heaven & Hell:1. HELLHell isno escape.And no acceptance.2. HEAVENAh, heaven.Heaven ismore complicated.
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