death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares,
hungry, in the parents’ faces, where does that violence,
anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine
miscarriages as minstrel shows, magic tricks, and comic
strips; set Darth Vader against Oedipus’s dad in competition
for “Father of the Year;” and interrogate the poet’s
family’s stint on reality TV. In this, his third collection,
award-winning poet Douglas Kearney doggedly worries the line
between love and hate, showing how it bleeds itself into
“fatherhood.”
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