Father's Father's Father by Dane Holt
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 Patricia Smith rising xenophobia

rising xenophobia

- John McCullough

'Poetry of innocence and wonder

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Father's Father's Father by Dane Holt<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025</b> Patricia Smith rising xenophobiaAs the title suggests, Father's Father's Father, is concerned with, among of things, an investigation of masculinity and family histories, the legacies of the past and the long shadow of the future. This finds expression through various modes, voices and cultural figures (such as private detectives, professional wrestlers and bodybuilders) but always in a poetic style that resists narrative completion and instead makes the reader question the desire