Conditional Perfect
ISBN: 978-1-907682-71-1 | Pages: 88 | Published: 2019
Conditional Perfect conveys the veins of being both artist and mother in an increasingly technological landscape, from the sublime mundanity of ordinary life, to the audible and inaudible music all around us. Cullen enters into the sonorous legacy of the Irish music tradition in her monologues of the harpers, a fitting sequence to complete the vibrant life revealed here, from the collection’s first wheeling poem with its graceful cyclist, through vivid evocations of figures such as Anna Akhmatova and W.B. Yeats, summoning spirits while eating plums. This collection, “freighted” in social realities, always seeks out the “poise” that comes with experience and empathy, the harmony of an open mind and ear attuned to “the music of what happens”. These sharp-brained poems of the personal and the political reach to the heart of things through the poet’s intimate experience of the world.
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