Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Barbican Press aims to overturn our ideas

aims to overturn our ideas of the jungle as a place of threatening darkness

as well as those who are

And occasionally the world does crack open

often drawn from the molten core of childhood

cats and dogs

Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Barbican Press aims to overturn our ideasHymn to the Reckless, the debut collection of poems by American born Erin Fornoff, traces an arc from youthful adventures in the Appalachian mountains to a confrontation with lifes complexities, not least in the radically transformed America of recent times. Moving between that America and her present 'Home from Home in Ireland, Fornoff finds a kind of consolation in community, while struggling to bridge the ever widening gap between what is and what