First published 2013
Michael Feeney Callan calls poetry the strongest concentrate of human thinking across history. His second poetry collection fuses personal memoir with anthropological observation and fantastical elements. The narrative explores questions of identity and meaning through multiple lenses. Callan draws material from his Dublin childhood, extensive travels, and professional relationships with figures like Robert Redford. The work challenges readers to reconsider fixed ideas about truth and destiny. Through shifting perspectives, Callan creates a meditation on discovering who we are. The poems weave together intimate memories with broader cultural insights. This collection presents a layered examination of how we construct meaning from experience.
Genres: poetry, anthropology, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, shifting-perspectives
Setting: Dublin
Period: 21st-century
144 pages · Hardcover · Crysis Press