Postcards From Dublin Author:John Mckernan, Laurette Reiff, Richard Wilmarth Poetry. Was once/ The wood of a tree// Perhaps from one/ Of the three trees/ To the left of the abandoned house// Anointed in cloud shadow/ Some gnarled limbs so/ Dead they are white/ As a blank sheet of paper. With an American eye and Irish ear these representative lines of County McKernan put postcard messages under a vigorously artful degree ... more »of pressure causing field stones to fill the landscape -- like air -- C.D. Wright. John McKernan directs this host of edgy Nebraska-American sonnets to sing for the Irish ghosts of his past. POSTCARD FROM DUBLIN is achingly beautiful -- David Huddle. Saddle-stapled.« less