[New-Poetry] Al Maginnes reviewed

[jforjames at aol.com]

Al, I hope that isn't your author photo at the top this page...

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1371379.html


"Ghost Alphabet" is Al Maginnes' fourth full-length collection and winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. As the title suggests, "Ghost Alphabet" is a kind of haunting in that many of the poems contain an often unsettling story or event from the speaker's past. One of the Raleigh resident's strengths as a writer is his ability to seamlessly intertwine meditation and event. A poem that starts with musings about the nature of sanity will get around to a particular person and the speaker's interaction with him. "Sane or mad: who gets to say?" is how "The Voices We Hear" begins. But the poet quickly begins to tell us about Donny Shepard and his troubles with "voices that hiss his name all day." 


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