Poetry. In Kevin Goodan's second collection, nature is equally cruel to all, and yearning is subsumed by an acceptance as terrible as it is beautiful. These poems are ecstatic, musical prayers, finding God in the details as well as the void. "Granted, delightedly, its Keatsian pressures, compressions and urgency, Kevin Goodan's WINTER TENOR is no 'cold pastoral.' No indeed; these poems choir a warm sound from the barest branches and stir the embers of dark flames ablaze. Here is the soul of heat driven straight through the roots and veins of this old world"--Donald Revell.

Author City: LEWISTON, ID USA

Kevin Goodan's first book, IN THE GHOST-HOUSE ACQUAINTED (Alice James Books) won the 2005 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares and American Poet, among others, and he has taught creative writing at the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University. He is an assistant professor at Lewis-Clark State College, and he lives on a bluff overlooking the Clearwater River.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/goodan_poem.html
http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-orphan-in-me-interview-with.html
Sarah Sousa @ Gently Read Literature