Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA US Lecturer English Dept.
Michael S. Begnal appears in video reading two poems from Ancestor Worship on the new Salmon Poetry website: http://lnk.ms/34gPJPosted at 5:44 PM Nov 19 view more
About me: A thonnsa thíos is airde géim go hard,/
meabhair mo chinnse cloíte ód bhéiceach tá;/
cabhair dá dtíodh arís ar Éirinn bhán,/
do ghlam nach binn do dhingfinn féin id bhráid.
--Aodhagán Ó Rathaille
‘Mediocre crime fiction it ain’t. If the prose was any more hard-boiled, demolition companies would be buying up copies of this book and using them as wrecking balls. I’m not kidding when I say this book should be huge. The question is, is the world ready for it?’ – Christopher Nosnibor