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The Second O of Sorrow

Sean Thomas Dougherty

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English
BOA Editions, Limited
10 April 2018
Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments-a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio-these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for justice, for joy, every god damned day.
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Imprint:   BOA Editions, Limited
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   165
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   113g
ISBN:   9781942683551
ISBN 10:   1942683553
Series:   American Poets Continuum Series
Pages:   104
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Publisher's Weekly describes Sean Thomas Dougherty as ""A blue-collar, Rust Belt romantic to his generous, enthusiastic core,"" and Dorianne Laux praises him as ""the gypsy punk heart of American poetry."" He is the author or editor of fifteen books including All You Ask for is Longing: Poems 1994-2014 (Boa Editions), and Double Kiss: Stories, Poems, Essays on the Art of Billiards (Mammoth Books 2017). His awards include a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans, and an appearance in Best American Poetry. Known for his dynamic readings, he has performed at hundreds of venues, universities and festivals including the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Old Dominion Literary Festival and across Albania and Macedonia where he appeared on national television, sponsored by the US State Department. He works as a Med Tech and Caregiver for people with brain injuries. He lives in Erie, PA.

Reviews for The Second O of Sorrow

“A blue-collar, Rust Belt romantic to his generous, enthusiastic core, Dougherty has filled eight prior volumes with character sketches, pool hall odes (he now works in a pool hall), vaunting declarations, outcries, celebrations, protests, and promises, ‘in the rusting cities in the rusting places where we leaned against the wall, in the smoky haze of bar smoke and breath.’” —Publisher’s Weekly “Sean Thomas Dougherty’s poems vibrate with ‘red and blue braids of light’, in a voice that resonates and transports. Arresting, precise imagery from a poet of grand and memorable vision, this is the gypsy punk heart of American poetry.” —Dorianne Laux “Sean Thomas Dougherty's poems are singing knives that cut your heart so that it beats again!” —Phil Metres “Every poem Sean Thomas Dougherty writes is holy, a psalm for the damned.” —Sheryl St. Germain


  • Winner of Betsy Colquitt Poetry Prize 2015 (United States)
  • Winner of Housatonic Book Award for Poetry 2019 (United States)
  • Winner of Lifetime of Poetry Achievement Award 2015 (United States)
  • Winner of Paterson Poetry Prize 2019 (United States)

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