Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems of Memory and Desire

Each poem in this collection forms a spiral staircase of carefully balanced lines that lead us to the balcony of surprise.A seamless blend of keen observation mild-mannered irony and garden fresh metaphors Mahons unassuming craft reflects contemporary poetry at its best !--Salman Akhtar author of The Hidden Knot and Blood and Ink.This book is a gift to all of us. Part magician part leprechaun Eugene Mahon has produced a volume of magical poems that in the tradition of Yeats himself both speaks to the soul and touches the heart.--Theodore JacobsMahon is a poet who comes to us with his heart wide open with the promise to sing to everyone anew his poetry a ghost devoted to the haunting of each listener with the uprightness of his voice in a fallen world.--Gordon Lish