Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan PBS autumn recommendations The texture of her language

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Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan PBS autumn recommendations The texture of her languageMagnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie OCallaghans first collection since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (2008). Her new poems have evolved from the early monologues written in American demotic to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis ODriscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for the absurdities of modern life including the grieving process where she can see her husband alive