Books by Jill McDonough

Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see Where You Live.

Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.