The Bittersweet Love of Randolph K. MacKinnonThe Bittersweet love of Randolph K. Mckinnon is John Makinsons second volume of poetry. It is a lovers tale told through a series of poems. Beginning with a honeymoon and ending in tragedy, it is the story of a modern marriage. Both a book of poetry and a novella related mainly from the male perspective, but occasionally from the female the poems are intelligent, witty, often erotic, and ultimately poignant.

Woodsley begins to glean that there is more to their stay

imprisoned or killed

Edwards further mines his family for writing which is at once intimate

Dear Blacksmith recounts the author's brief and unconventional love affair with 'Blacksmith Paul'

when the Council House was being built and the statue of Queen Victoria still stood in Market Square

as well as Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College

"The weight of each line here

even reassuring inevitability and the poets invite us to see beauty in the stillness of the night and the ooze of a snail trail

I think the poems themselves make my choice seem less harsh or less impertinent

fear and fascination of boyhood

and then the books

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