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Fellow Survivors

by Al Maginnes
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In his new & selected Fellow Survivors Al Maginnes is a poet summing up. Early on in this radiant collection (in the poem “Thirty Years of Teaching. No Sabbatical”) we hear: “In the end / there will be a roster / of things undone, but somewhere / someone might recall an afternoon when / I said something I had not known / until I said it, a twist of thought / that became true when words found it.” Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Charles Bukowski and others make appearances, as if the narrative of a life is nothing if not peopled by a sky of personality-stars whose work infiltrates Maginnes’ great storytelling. And there is always his reaction to “the infinite stories that go on / being told for the love of their telling,” as in this set of lines from “Salt, Fire, What Comes After”:

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