These new poems by Patrick Hansel are all really one poem, a sequence that is at its heart a great tribute of a son\'s love for his father unlike any I\'ve read before. "the eyes of the dead...will open like broken wings" - "And the earth remembers." Yes, and so do poets, remember and seek "Justice, mercy, bread.." Just.
War, the Great Depression, homelessness, the hazards of farming, hair cutting and day work, this is the essential American immigrant story, a story of strife and rage and glory.
These new poems by Patrick Hansel are all really one poem, a sequence that is at its heart a great tribute of a son\'s love for his father unlike any I\'ve read before