55 Devotionals (Against Erasure) by Andrew McDonnell Jonathan Mann With a Stranger's Eyes is

With a Stranger's Eyes is in two parts

shaded by grief

out of prominent view for a couple of decades and are rediscovered here

placing them lovingly on the graves of the dead

Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them

55 Devotionals (Against Erasure) by Andrew McDonnell Jonathan Mann With a Stranger's Eyes isThe metaphysical prose poems in this collection seek to create a space for strangeness and joy in things of this world and aim to prevent the erasure of working class experience. The poems explore masculinity, fatherhood and generational traumas with a secular search for meaning and faith in the lived experience to help make sense of who and what we are. They are poems that explore the effects of class across our lives to resist assimilation and move