O Lucky Day: Poems

O Lucky Day: PoemsPatricia Clark's latest poetry collection O Lucky Day explores her concerns about family and mortality, silence and loneliness, widening to include losses in the natural world. These sorrows often emerge along with an exuberance found in the sensual pleasures of taste and touch. Clark trains herself "to disappear, into the shagbark hickory, the scarred maple, the viburnum just about to flower." She knows that whatever upheaval we bring to the world,

"Ferociously imagined…and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback

devoted admirers will be sure to find their favorite verse and stories

Every day we experience the uncertainty

political savvy

Ivan occupies himself with television

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell

and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well

as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld

and danger

went to college

"Your next favorite romantic comedy

entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners