“the last communist”
the crippled god of fire and metalworking
moving and often funny account
Gatot who never finishes his sentences
Erosions Catherine Phil MacCarthy “the last communist”Erosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the