Boy Drinkers by Terence Winch
|
Book Summary Author: Terence Winch Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-04-01 ISBN: 1931236801 Number of pages: 76 Publisher: Hanging Loose Press |
| New | New Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $14.99 | ||
| Used | Used Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $0.01 |
Your purchase is protected by the A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee. Amazon.com automatically transfers your payment to the merchant so you'll never need to pay a merchant directly. Amazon.com A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee covers both the delivery of your item and its condition upon receipt.
Book Reviews of the Boy Drinkers
Customer Review: Commiting couageously to paper
Summary: 5 Stars
A great man cautiously reveals his vulnerability. A great poet commits it to paper. One feels a sense of both vulnerability and greatness in reading Terence Winch's latest volume of poetry, Boy Drinkers. A New York upbringing with Irish Catholic parents, friends, community, dreams, passions, and foibles are the subjects that fill this deftly written book. This poetic journey through Winch's memories is told through spare, exquisite poems, some of them giving just a glimpse and others telling unforgettable stories. I especially enjoyed "Celebration", Winch's finely drawn portrait of Christmas Eve recollections of Midnight Mass, breakfast at two in the morning, music and dancing with family and neighbors, and finally wishing for daybreak so he could open presents. He explores the teen years through a clear lens of memory that is unsentimental yet loving and respectful of the myriad cast of characters who populated his youth-friends, priests, teachers among them. His family members are spotlighted in such a way as to make you want to sit down with him and pour over the family album. Humor is always there whether the topic is serious or tongue-in-cheek. In "Numbers," a poem about confession, you never doubt for a second his wry smile lurking behind such lines as, "...get 50 years of plenary indulgence. An advance parole from purgatory. An incredibly good deal" and in a tribute to St. Patrick, "dear saint of our isle, we'd like to send ya an urgent plea to abolish Enya." If you long to look at someone else's version of the journey to becoming yourself, read Boy Drinkers. It's a trip worth lingering over.