Mad Cursive

The poems in Mad Cursive move gracefully between beauty and destruction, the essential real locale of poetry in our times. A mad swordsman inside a poet-seer, McKinney dares to locate what resembles, in my reading, spirit laid bare. In this truly elegant book, the remnant of our language negotiates a shadow world-that space between life and death-which is life on this earth. "Inside sword we find word," indeed. A truly courageous book. -Claudia Keelan, author of Missing Her