The NarrowsDaniel Tobin

The Narrows

Name: The Narrows
ISBN: 9781884800597

Daniel Tobin · 2005

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About the book

Coming of age in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, these poems explore what it is to be an Irish American Catholic; a dutiful son of hard drinking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic parents; a son of Brooklyn; and too, deeply rooted to the country of his ancestors, Ireland. Dark, funny, and sometimes troubling, these poems, always accessible, track a life well lived and felt.

First sentence: The way Lanning painted it Benton, Rivera-bright panels on which the laborers huddle, shirtless, their flexed arms bearing the full weight of the rail.