John Mitchel’s Death Tells Me Jokes heralds not just the arrival of another great book of verse but a completely new voice in American poetry. Once you begin reading, you will be so enthralled and astonished by its outlook and its lyricism that you will not be able to stop. This is fatalism with a sense of humor, sarcasm with a soft heart, self-reproach leavened by the memory of beauty. 

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