Boy Drinkers
by Terence Winch
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Author: Terence WinchEditor: Dick Lourie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN: 1931236801
Number of pages: 76
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
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Book Review: Wry, Biting. Delicious
Summary: 4 Stars
Drunken priest "lurching round Gaelic Park." Irish Catholic Rockaway where all on the beach freeze to the bells of the noon Angelus. God, "who walked out the door" when Winch was 16. Mother Mary Margaret, the nun whose "stiff white headdress gave her beard a blue tint." Jesus "everywhere, he always looked holy and boring." Nuns and brothers who "whacked us and smacked us till we cried out, 'God, why us?'" And Winch's marvelously iconoclastic prayer to St. Patrick: "Forgive us green beer, Hostess cup cakes with green icing. Banish Danny Boy and the Unicorn."
These poems are wry, biting, delicious, funny, full of right-on detail that bring back the Irish Catholic Bronx in the "reign of Pope Pius." Artful and entertaining, nostalgia without sentimentality."
Summary of Boy Drinkers
"BOY DRINKERS looks with sober eyes at the people, tragedies, and traditions that shaped any of us who grew up in a community where alcohol and God were equally able to bring us to our knees. With his musician's ear and Irishman's humor, Terence Winch pokes fun at the Holy, makes sacred the mundane, and redefines the meaning of 'grace.'"--Meg Kearney "In a voice that manages to be understated, precise, and casual all at once, Winch exposes us to a set of characters struggling with a world that's changing too fast not only for them, but for anyone. These are poems you'll remember. Clear-eyed, unsentimental, and hilarious, they'll also break your heart."--Mark WallaceGeneral Books
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