Bøger af Jill McDonough

From the perspective of a teacher in a youth detention center, these hard-hitting poems have a unique blend of dark humor and realism.In a composition of both compassion for Americas unheard voices and contempt for the systems unjustness, American Treasure chronicles McDonoughs personal place within the nation. She considers her work with incarcerated students, her privilege, her womanhood, and the connection she shares with others. Through this exploration, McDonough writes with care about the possibility of a people in a country built on cruelty.Poems prod, ache, question, and laugh, as they tap into the complexity of a modern nation full of contempt for the vile systems woven into the American fabric, while also celebrating those who live in spite of them.

Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see Where You Live.

Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.