“A book of spiritual reckoning and superb artistry… a marvelously cohesive collection”

M
Written By Dale M. Kushner

“Dale Kushner’s M is a book of spiritual reckoning and superb artistry, reminiscent of Rilke’s great New Poems volumes. Beginning with revisionist retellings of the Expulsion and the life of Mary Magdalene, the collection then circles outward to include a wide array of monologues and character studies as well as some moving elegies for the author’s father. M also is a marvelously cohesive collection, unified by its empathy, by the power of its witnessing, and by its devotional ardor. As Kushner writes in the closing poem, ‘This wasn’t the underworld. I was ascending /and everything demanded an upward gaze.’”

—David Wojahn, For The Scribe

Dale M. Kushner

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