Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: “Good Friday 2” enacts the disorientation of travel, as the speaker tours the Old City of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the purported location of the Sermon on the Mount, and other historical and religious sites in Israel. Amid the whirl of activity, we see him processing his relationship to religion, especially in light of his experience with cancer (this is an excerpt from a longer work called Survivor’s Notebook). In this poem, Dan O’Brien shows us the coexistence of belief and doubt, the skeptic with an open mind, the observer with an eye for both the sublime and the terrestrial.
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Dan O’Brien is a poet and playwright based in Los Angeles. His previous poetry collections are War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press / CB Editions, 2013), Scarsdale (Measure Press / CB Editions 2015), and New Life (Hanging Loose Press / CB Editions, 2016). His fourth collection, Our Cancers, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2021.
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