This new book of poems, a Stahlecker Series selection from Four Way Books, has an Afterword by Michael Burkard, and contains works that first appeared in: Bloomsbury Review; Green Mountains Review; The Iowa Review; The Marlboro Review; TriQuarterly; and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

"Intelligent, laconic, sparely written, these poems trace the unsettling links between our gestures of affection and the often unwitting cruelties we inflict on those we love."—Tom Sleigh

The Harness was chosen by Four Way Books as a Stahlecker Series Selection.

PAT MANGAN holds Masters degrees in English and Classics from the University of Iowa, and has been the director of the CCS Reading Series at Civic Center Synagogue In New York City. He also works at an antiques store, and teaches at Marymount Manhattan College.

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