Ethna McKiernan Libros

The poet's exacting sense of metaphor allows her to transform such particulars into universal experiences of pleasure and pain without ever becoming vague or abstract. A fine book from a maturing poet.""-Booklist ""Ethna McKiernan stands out among the ranks of poets for her ability to match language to subject, sound to sense. When this combination comes into play, readers come away refreshed and drawn deeper into life.""-The Bloomsbury Review

Ethna McKiernan's Sky Thick With Fireflies is laced and bound by memory. These poems hold the past to light and insist upon remembrance. Included are moving elegies for her father, for a friend's son, for the dead of 9/11, for her own child lost to adoption, and for the homeless population with whom she works. McKiernan's language of the ordinary is charged with the pervasive sense of compassion that governs this book.

McKiernan's fourth collection returns to her earlier themes of loss, and of the pervasive losses of the homeless population with whom she works. Interspersed are poems of love, praise, and joy.

This book is Ethna McKiernan's fifth and most ambitious collection of poetry. McKiernan, who has a gift for metaphor, gives us 120 poems in her latest volume, a third of which are new.