Poetry. CONSOLATION PRIZE, a poetry collection by Laurie MacDiarmid, is the inaugural offering of the Georgetown Review Press. The press is an offshoot of the Georgetown Review , a literary magazine that has been publishing since 1993. CONSOLATION PRIZE explores a father's early death from cancer, charting the ripples and amendments his absence creates in the web of connected lives he leaves behind, disturbances that echo into past and future. Long after the father's death, the poet dangles in this web, spinning a life for ...
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Poetry. CONSOLATION PRIZE, a poetry collection by Laurie MacDiarmid, is the inaugural offering of the Georgetown Review Press. The press is an offshoot of the Georgetown Review , a literary magazine that has been publishing since 1993. CONSOLATION PRIZE explores a father's early death from cancer, charting the ripples and amendments his absence creates in the web of connected lives he leaves behind, disturbances that echo into past and future. Long after the father's death, the poet dangles in this web, spinning a life for herself from the threads he's left behind, hoping to capture his presence and, at the same time, transcend his loss. "CONSOLATION PRIZE builds in momentum, each poem well plotted, emotionally adept, energetic, and full of music."--Denise Duhamel "MacDiarmid gives us the clear, frank, emotional truths--never sentimental, never hysterical. Like the best poets she knows when to hold back and when to let go."--Jim Daniels "CONSOLATION PRIZE depicts with unflinching accuracy the ways in which life goes wrong when love is replaced by bad choice after bad choice.... Readers will want to kneel down in front of children everywhere and beg forgiveness for us all."--Claudia Keelan "CONSOLATION PRIZE brings us to an understanding of family life through a young woman's growth of consciousness in poems that sear us with their tension. This is honest writing, honed and crafted, sharpened to make its many points through poetry's slant approach."--Patricia Clark
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