Threshold

by Rob Doyle

Threshold . A piece of wood, metal, or stone that forms the bottom of a door. You walk over it as you enter a room. A house. Your life. It is a point of beginnings, endings. And changes. In his stunning new collection of poems, Joseph O. Legaspi explores these liminal spaces, portals that we enter which transform our lives. It is a book that celebrates various courageous outsets across boundaries—bodily, filial, marital, even biblical. Threshold not only offers revelations from both sides of the passageway but tells of human endurance and our longing, our desires. Joseph O. Legaspi , a Fulbright and New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, is the author of two poetry collections from CavanKerry Press, Threshold (2017) and Imago (2007) ; and three Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). His poems have appeared in POETRY, New England Review, World Literature Today, Best of the Net, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. He co-founded Kundiman ( www.kundiman.org ), a national organization serving generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. He lives with his husband in Queens, NY.

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About the author

Rob Doyle’s first novel, Here Are the Young Men, is published by Bloomsbury, and was chosen as a book of the year by The Irish Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post, and Independent. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year. His second book, This Is the Ritual, will be published in January 2016 (Bloomsbury / Lilliput). Rob’s fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post, Gorse, Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction 2016 and elsewhere.