Tightrope
- ISBN-10
- 1852354356
- ISBN-13
- 9781852354350
- Series
- Tightrope
- Pages
- 70
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Gallery Press
- Author
- Aidan Rooney
Description
Tightrope is Aidan Rooney s second collection, a richly intense exploration of loss and return. In its span of two worlds, the author s native Ireland and the shores south of Boston where he makes his home, alternating notes of tension and repose evoke love and love-loss. Two sequences anchor the collection and seek to salve heartbreak with restorations of beauty and peace: May Altar , a moving rumination on his mother s death, and Among the Wrecks in which he delves into the history of a nineteenth-century Irish-American family. The book counters upheaval with astounding balancing acts. Its meditations varied and various, playful, macaronic (and ablaze with already trademark verbal dexterity) reverberate in startling effects.
