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Conroy, James
James Conroy has published poems and short stories in numerous literary journals and periodicals, including Xanadu, Blue Unicorn, Grub Street, Visions, and The Dan River Anthology. At present, he is under contract for his first novel, The Hostile Comrade. For three years he has conducted a poetry workshop with homeless women and their children residing in the safe haven of a shelter.
1997 0-7734-2830-5This collection of thirty poems is truly representative of the recurring themes in the poetry of James Conroy. Though non-religious, there is a decided spirituality running through the poems that pays tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the modern world's loss of committed values not associated with gain or notoriety.