“Stopgap Grace is proof that the sublime and absurd sometimes switch jobs. All sacred words get used and every recklessness sanctified. No sooner has night “slid its burlap sack over our heads” than we are given “alibis for something that / never happened.” McCarthy’s voice is the one we want when we’re running low on grace.”
Brendan Constantine
author Dementia, My Darling (Red Hen Press, 2016)
"Like a love letter to the world on the eve of its destruction.”
Stephen Murray
author House of Bees and On Corkscrew Hill (Salmon Poetry)