The Devil in the Milk
Griffith, Rob
Sold by Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Add to basketSold by Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 January 2003
Condition: New
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Add to basket82 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.19 inches. In Stock.
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—Ned Balbo
In Rob Griffith’s The Devil in the Milk, he gives us the fishing trips and porchlit lawns of suburban America in conversation with that great Irish fisher of souls, Saint Columcille of Iona. Griffith’s poems channel Yeats and Robert Lowell, with wonderfully wrought forms gem-set with assonance and consonance: “The aster, / thrift, and campion spread across the wrack/in lambent scarves of purple, pink, and white.” This is an Ireland of the past brought powerfully back to life, down to the details of fish and fowl and flora and fauna. And it is an America in search of its spiritual center and seeking to store its angst away in Tupperware and Ziploc bags in the cold white coffin of the fridge and hoping “To learn that death is not the only answer.” Griffith’s spiritual quest and doubt is dramatic and sorrowful and uplifting, but it is also several things beyond: Beautiful, full of heart, intimately crafted and yet simple and direct, poetry of the highest order.
—Tony Barnstone
St. Columba, who figures prominently in these remarkable poems, journeyed from Ireland to save the souls of men, discovering along the way that all prophecy is a death sentence. Griffith, his contemporary heir and assign, ventures from his own house to find and save his own. The adventure may be merely suburban, but “he can feel / the constant wash of days and nights unlived / against his shores.” The question he raises is a timeless one: “Should we ask more of life than life?” The answer is found in the necessary negations that are the springs of joy.
—R. S. Gwynn
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