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they unveil startling avenues of thought that tremble with unsettled feeling

from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future

All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath Mary Jean Chan we understand that within theirAll the Pretty Lights is a revelation, a book of poems which speaks to many worlds while finding a common ground for all. Here Gerry McGrath's poems manage to balance, often on a knife edge, between the typical and the weird, the domestic and the otherworldly, the ordinary and the metaphysical. All the Pretty Lights does what the best poetry is supposed to do: it enlarges the reader's universe, and helps us find answers to the eternal mysteries of