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| | Jacket 15 - Gabriel Gudding - review of Daylight Savings Sex, by Randolph Healy |
 | | Randolph Healy, like some, forgive the anagram, “holy alpha nerd”, has a “hyper-anal hold” on language, such that we enjoy where his book grips us immensely, which is not so much in the anus. |
 | | And Healy, as many are coming to realize, belongs to a tight and fulgent group of Irish poets who are changing the scape of poetry in Ireland and abroad: Maurice Scully, Trevor Joyce, Billy Mills, and Mairéad Byrne, all of whom are influenced by Joyce and devoted to the non-bucolic. |
 | | Healy’s poems, and this one in particular, hold at once a mathematical precision and an easy playfulness, a humor and a gravity, that cause a kind of rip in the reader. |
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