Beyond Basilicas

Beyond Basilicas is a remarkable collection of poems in the way it calls out across the decades and speaks to this present moment.

With plainspoken reverence for the local life, O'Neil's work is, as ever, finely-wrought ⎯ its lines tuned like a drumhead with just the right tension: 'Rimshots and paradiddles popping off / The snare into that blue / Connecticut milltown morning air.