Future Blues Adam Fet’hi “These are the poems of

“These are the poems of a wide-ranging intelligence greedy for experience - but also offering us her own sharp and entertaining ‘criticism of life’

Juliet Jacques

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The poems trace identity through language and image

Future Blues Adam Fet’hi “These are the poems ofFuture Blues is both a progression from and a break with Michael S. Begnals previous collection, Ancestor Worship, which was described by the Irish Literary Supplement as an attempt at reconstructing an obscured heritage. While traces of this impulse inevitably recur, Future Blues hurtles forward, seeking out new images and modes of being, even as our collective future death looms. Future Blues, in its title, lashes Irish poetry past and future into