i can wonder anything
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Poet Bob Holman says of Terence Degnan’s work, “What a delight to read Terence Degnan! It’s like reading the World. No, it’s like the World is reading to you.”
Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Tina Cane, writes of Degnan’s new book, “Terence Degnan is the real thing–a streetwise philosopher whose poems ring with music, rough wisdom, and wry humor. Degnan strikes such a fine balance between grit and grace, it kind of hurts. It’s the good kind of hurt you should run out and read.
Playwright Erin Courtney writes, “Great poetry has a sense of humor, a deep love of the world, and an in-the-moment-go-for-broke understanding of mortality. Terence Degnan‘s poetry fulfills all of these delirious requirements. The language crackles, sparks and flies when you read it out loud.”
Publisher: Leah Huete de Maines
Editor: Christen Kincaid
Cover art: Travis Swain Pendlebury
Still something rattles
You can now order Terence Degnan’s Still Something Rattles, a concept book of poems broken into three chapters; Letters From Purgatory, Unicorn, and Rome.
This limited edition is encased by a hand-made, wooden sleeve, and branded by a custom logo representing all three chapters. Still Something Rattles is available from Sock Monkey Press as of September 25, 2016.
“Full, satisfying, and ultimately redeeming, Degnan reminds us not only what poetry can do but what it must do,” says poet Nicole Callihan (Author, The Deeply Flawed Human, Deadly Chaps Press)
Playwright Erin Courtney, author of A Map of Virtue, says of Still Something Rattles, “Great poetry has a sense of humor, a deep love for the world, and a go for broke in the moment understanding of mortality. Terence Degnan’s poetry fulfills all of these delirious requirements.”
Box art by Ethan Crenson ethancrenson.com
Interior art by Morgan Lappin morganjesselappin.com
THE SMALL PLOT BESIDE THE VENTRILOQUIST’S GRAVE
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In his debut poetry collection, Degnan dissects religion, government, fatherhood,brotherhood and attempts at collecting and keeping loved ones. His words barrel forward with a lyrical slyness, referencing mythology and long ago worlds while winding together the disparate threads of contemporary American culture. With a rhythmic and powerful beauty, Degnan reminds us that we only imagine ourselves as free. (Retail $15.00, pp 106, ISBN:978-0-9825041-1-2, paperback, August 2012.)
“Terence’s poems don’t simply sit upon the page, waiting for you to read them; they grab you in their wind and spiral up above the earth until you are hanging with Major Tom out there in the ether, looking down upon our spinning orb with different eyes.”
–– Kate Hill Cantrill,
Author of Walk Back From Monkey School
“[Degnan’s poems] are simply propelled into the atmosphere urgent, heartfelt, both playful and dead serious. The contagious energy of the music hops off the page. It’s hard to keep up with the burning fuse of these lines, but well worth the effort. His dazzling imagery will send your head spinning. He’s a true original whose voice needs to be heard.”
–– Jim Daniels,
Author of All of the Above