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The brilliant and bracing debut collection of poetry from Declan Ryan: a writer, critic, and fierce new literary voice.Declan Ryan's Crisis Actor chronicles various kinds of failures and farewells. It is peopled by faded heroes and deferential devotees, a hanged donkey and a bloated rat, solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths-these are the watchers, not the players. The poems are awash in rueful self-accusation and laconic skepticism. The...

solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths - these are the watchers, not the players. This is the aftermath of being one who - in Matthew Arnold's words - 'has reached his utmost limits and finds .