Frank Golden's IF YOU TOLERATE THIS is a wide ranging work in six
parts which nails its geo-political colors to the mast, and casts a
misanthropic eye over the whole morass. The book opens in the company of
Nick and his girlfriend Inga as they travel up the Tapajós River to the
failed capitalist venture of Fordlandia. Failure and the blighted
realities of both entitled and marginalized lives suffuse various
sections of the book. Poems concerned with political and eco dynamics
not only dominate section 5 but inform the book as a whole. IF YOU
TOLERATE THIS ends with a group of ghazals that Golden wrote having
back-packed through Iran in 2019. This is a book with a large cast of
characters, both familiar and new, who are as riven and corruptive as
the age we live in.
Praise for Golden's last book of poems GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU:
"Golden is a poet to get excited about... This is a startling and
exciting collection." - Afric McGlinchey, Southward Journal
"I have rarely been so moved by a book of poems." - Grace Wells Fur
"A fantastic new collection by Irish poet Frank Golden. It has floored
me like no book of poetry has in a long time. Golden has an uncanny
ability to touch on the things that move us most deeply." - Phil
Hanrahan, Bookish Review/USA
