Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. O'Callaghan's collection of poems deals with many problems, big and small-gardening, big feet, old classmates, modern world, cancer, death, etc.-with both humor and poignancy. At times O'Callaghan's language is so comical and absurd that the reader laughs with and at the poet. But at other times her language is so intimate, her settings and thoughts so familiar that her world and thoughts become the reader's: "There is the wasp problem, / the storms problem, the grass / growing-between-the-bricks-in-the-driveway problem. / Then there's the remembering to / lock-all-the-windows problem. / Hey, knuckleheads! / I guess you just don't appreciate / how many problems there are." O'Callaghan is the author of What's What, a Poetry Book Society Choice, and has received the Michael Hartnett Prize for poetry.
