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Paradise gone
for good.
With these opening words, Michael Cleary’s Bearable Weight begins an exploration of everyday joys and struggles to address big questions. How to embrace change? Can we satisfy body and soul? Is this life enough?
This gifted storyteller weaves together several journeys: reckless son to anxious father, Adirondack Mountains to Florida shore, student to professor, religious conviction to existential doubt. With heartfelt passion and much humor, these poems strive to reconcile past and present, loves lost and found—choices and consequences which impact a life.
Cleary’s unflinching candor and vivid language blend with a chorus of remarkable voices including family, friends, students, The Prodigal Son’s Brother, Chief Osceola as they “stumble, bungle, blunder, survive.” |
