Beyond Basilicas

<p><strong>Beyond Basilicas is a remarkable collection of poems in the way it calls out across the decades and speaks to this present moment. </strong></p><p>With plainspoken reverence for the local life O'Neil's work is as ever finely-wrought ⎯ its lines tuned like a drumhead with just the right tension: 'Rimshots and paradiddles popping off / The snare into that blue / Connecticut milltown morning air.</p>