Poetry. Published as part of the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. "Meg Kearney's AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS is a book of reticence and revelation, secrecy and surprise. Few poems are narrative, but something like a story emerges from these lyrics alive with hurt and splendor. Although the poems radiate personal feeling, we have no sense of confessional poetry as deliberate self-revelation; Kearney's confessional is Catholic. Some poems, especially the raven series, derive from the recesses of dream; others observe the world from outside. Wherever place her poems come from, their beauty lies in their language"-Donald Hall from the Foreword.