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PSALMS COMPOSED IN UTTER DARKNESS charts a moving spiritual journey. Imagining aspects of the Faustus story from its interior, Daly presents Dr. John Faustus as he pleads for himself and on behalf of other lost souls, while accepting his bargained-for damnation. Echoing the emotional range of Biblical psalms, this poetic voice importunes, despairs of, and praises God, without expectation of redemption. In splendid and often poignant language, ...

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Pride dates the fall of full-fledged heroes" says Dennis Daly in his new chapbook about the adventures and exploits of Major Robert Rogers, who fought for the British against the French during the French and Indian War. Rogers is known for his small, mobile force of rangers, who used the forest as cover to attack their enemies. Tried for treason by the English, hated by the French, and arrested as a spy by George Washington, Rogers is an intri...

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Again and again, in poems of precision, conscience, and formal elegance, Dennis Daly arrests our vertiginous world so we may see its beauty, horror, and promise. Daly is a masterful poet, whether he is writing in free or formal verse, and the poems in this substantial gathering of his work accrue to a mature vision of our world as it is and as it could be. The Custom House is a book to savor, a book to treasure. - Richard Hoffman, author of Go...

This modernized straight-forward translation of Sophocles' Ajax highlights the nature of man's potential nobility as he faces outward enemies and inner demons. Fresh insights into current issues of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the maltreatment of enemy bodies on the battlefield are dealt with in this classic tale of the Trojan War. The transformation of Ajax, a chieftain of the Greek army encamped before Troy, from the brutal arrogance o...

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Twelve-year-old Chico Filip-po, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can't stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent on to the fierce mountain fighting in the Apennines. One of the handlers introduces Chico to a small courageous animal the boy names Sergeant Donkey. Drawn into friendship a...