Monument: And Other Poems, Songs, and Myths

by Michael R. Lee

MONUMENT is a life in verse. It is one man's experience with addiction, abuse, mental illness, self-injury, loss, and heartbreak. Alternately angry and accepting, candid and wry, MONUMENT is always raw, unapologetic, and very human.

54 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 2014

Reviews

[Frederick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael R. Lee's MONUMENT resonates with me in several places. There is a Celtic path of most resistance which I recognize as one I trod in my youth. There is a sense of ghosts, or, the vacuum left by ghosts who should have been present. This is an America bereft of whatever it is our forbears came here for. To be more specific, the poems in MONUMENT focus on those taken from us suddenly, ingloriously and irrefutably. Yet, the tone is solemn, the remembrance real. And in the middle is a funny poem about the America which tries to sing "Paddy's Lament." An America which CAN'T sing "Paddy's Lament." It's a place I know.