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MEDITATIONS BEFORE THE WINDOWS FAIL

MEDITATIONS BEFORE THE WINDOWS FAIL

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ISBN: 978-0-9908193-4-9

Pub Date: Sept. 2015

Pages: 68


By George Looney


George Looney’s Meditations Before the Windows Fail discovers that, in a world composed of loss, our task is two-fold: to translate the world into meaning, and to turn toward each other when that translation is found to be, as it always is, inadequate.


George Looney’s mastery of language and empathy are gifts to the reader in this unforgettable collection. A celebration of love and a balm for the broken hearted, Meditations Before the Windows Fail feels both personal and profound. One of the most passionate, sensitive, and moving books of contemporary poetry I’ve read in ages.

—Aimee Parkison, author of The Petals of Your Eyes


    Music haunts Meditations Before the Windows Fail. Jukeboxes and car radios, invisible violins, the voices of lovers, the voices that carry miles, the sad hotel strains of the world in which the lovers press together, their bodies following the music’s lead. There’s no small knowledge at work here in these poems: that the song isn’t called by the singer but the other way around, with light another leitmotif, fleshed and beckoned.

    —Robert Gibb, author of The Empty Room and Sheet Music


    George Looney’s books include Structures the Wind Sings Through (a book-length poem, 2014), Monks Beginning to Waltz (2012), A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness (2011), Open Between Us (2010), The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels (2005), Attendant Ghosts (2000), Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh (1995), and the novella Hymn of Ash (2008). He founded the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie and serves as editor-in-chief of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and he is a co-founder of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

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