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Blister Pack
David McCooey is an elegist of the everyday. His poems combine minimalism and intensity, elegance and emotion. Finely crafted and edged with wit, they offer a kind of unsentimental nostalgia, a passionate irony. Blister Pack is a first collection of immense control and variety which has the haunting resonance of music.
112 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2005
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February 5, 2015
What I liked most about this collection is its grounding in everyday life in Melbourne, Australia (my second home). There's even a poem titled "After a Line Abandoned by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Melbourne's poet laureate and all-around wonderful person. McCooey does the Melbourne tradition proud, as in "...Now I'm trying/ to live within my means, while/ you're somewhere, dispensing/ another pill from the blister/ pack of your emotions."
April 18, 2013
A collection of evocative poems. So pleased to own it.
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