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Pegasus at the Plow: A Poetry Collection
by Patrick Walker
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ISBN13: 9780981461908 |
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Over 25 years of expression in poetic verse Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1958, Patrick Joseph Walker has always been a seeker of truth in all things. His earliest perceptions of life were colored by familial devotion to Irish clan and the Catholic Church. An early scholar, he attended Scranton Preparatory School and was later accepted into the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Program at the University of Scranton. During a hiatus from formal education, he worked as a staff writer for the Legislature in Saipan. When he returned to the United States, he was awarded a Philosophy Fellowship at Fordham University. Today, he works as an editor and proofreader of educational materials for a local correspondence college. His real work, however, involves studying the works of Blaise Pascal and Friedrich Hayek. He lives in Factoryville, Pennsylania, with his artist POSSLQ, Ginger Cody, her daughter Anna, and the family's two dogs, Lilly and Rosie.
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Grady Harp, March 25, 2008 (view all comments by Grady Harp)
Gut Responses Against the Grain of Tradition
Patrick Walker is an Individualist, a man so comfortable in his skin and his world of observation and creation that he seems to have little need for not only the contemporary mechanics that could make his life of writing simpler, but for the recognition and applause most poets hope to find. The product of an Irish Catholic upbringing, he has managed to walk his own path apparently unconcerned about the grit of 'employment', but instead finds his life of support from writing and editing scholastic materials while immersing himself in his favored study of the works of 17th century French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal and 20th century economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. And how does this information aid in reading the poetry Walker has composed during the past twenty five years? The reader must turn to the at times enigmatic poems contained in this slim but pungent volume to appreciate the result.
Walker's way with words is at times gritty and acerbic, at times philosophical and still at other times naughty and sensual and even elegant. It is difficult to come away from reading 'The Unholy War (For Michael Olscheske, 1956 - 1989) without a completely fresh view of friendship and kinship: it is a song fit for an Irish wake, both in content and in form. Walker tinkers with Haiku (successfully), plays with cadence and rhyme at will, takes on tongue in cheek topics as in 'Litany for a Common Whore', writes some poems in French and others on a theme and variation after Baudelaire, and utters the tenderest of small songs as in 'Tristitia Post Coitum' or 'Belladonna'.
For this reader Patrick Walker is a minstrel, a man who wanders his world breathing in life and breathing out these beautifully constructed poems. This is one of the more refreshingly different collections of poems to be published in a while and the moods these poems elicit are touchingly made visual with the art of Virginia Cody subtly offering breathing space.
Grady Harp
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780981461908
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Tribute Books
- Illustrator:
- Cody, Virginia
- Subject:
- Poetry : General
- Subject:
- Poetry : American - General
- Subject:
- American - General
- Publication Date:
- March 2008
- Binding:
- eBooks
- Language:
- English
