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THE RITE OF PASSAGE

By Joseph McCullough

Six Gallery Press, www.sixgallerypress.com

2004, ISBN 0-9746033-5-X,paperback,pp.95,Very
Highly Recommended

Poetry

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Joseph
McCullough, a teacher of Handicapped and English, and a graduate of Girard College,
Philadelphia Community
College and Temple University, lives in New Jersey with his two children. THE RITE OF PASSAGE is his fourth book.

THE RITE OF
PASSAGE is a rhapsody on life, eternal life, life on earth , but includes parts
of the author?s own life as well. The readers can learn about the author?s life
on page 13: ? I venture to add to my generation but remain within my own life,/
one began at nine months before birth and by the same time after/ left
fatherless, raised in infancy by the concept of post world/ war housing
projects ,removed by the state of law to be reared/? .?

Joseph
deals with the concept of Religion on page 12:
?Religion must retreat from its words that condemn persons/ if the
lifestyle of its leaders exceeds those of its followers, /especially those hard
pressed to have a place to breathe;/? .?

He talks
about his country, America,
on page 56: ?America, land of one continent
abridged by the oceans ,/rifted by the spirographic turn of a galaxy in its
universe/? .? The concept of being alive
is on page 65: ?Ever the present is
there, the appearance of being in life,/ever the present ,the sensation of
being alive ,the speed/? .? He then addresses
the issue of women on page 66: ?Hidden
by the years and the slow decline of facades,/the woman looked about the earth
,not that it mattered/? .?

There is an
inspirational part on page 72: ?See for
yourself the day, not from inside your memories/but as new thoughts in life,
without fear in being, with light / of darkness and clear of shadows?? The issue of Religion is addressed once more
on page 73: ?Religion, the speaking of
the mind to a creator of its origins,/the voice of being , life formed of the
universal elements,/the spirit before conception? .?

On page 75 ,
Joseph writes about his work and himself:
?Now this poem, a poet?s analogue of thoughts ,abbreviated/from master
scrolls of purist taste ,saturate in repetition/? .? Next, on page 77 the author exhorts readers
to self-inquiry to discover themselves: ??look at your own selves and see in
silence your true vision.?

On page 88
the writer tries to find the purpose in life:
?Me, who I am, a person of self recognized when requested/of life,
chosen as a being of time rendering all associations/of humanity.? His love for being alive is displayed on page
91 while the last part of his poem tells the readers that life goes on. At the epilogue, on pp.93-94 , the author
exhorts readers that their ?emotional passage of life?s journeys? , ?are not in
vain solitaire rides?.

To sum up,
Joseph?s work is amazing. The title is
oblique and intriguing. The ?rite of
passage?, the way we live our life, has both a literal and a metaphoric meaning.
Focusing on the ?rite? we understand that ?traveling? is the important element in
our life?s journey. The impulse and emotion
behind the poem seem true and the author leads us to a journey of discovery.

The poem is
written in ?free verse?, that is , he uses none of the established metrical
patterns . It mainly relies on
alliteration and assonance. In this way,
the author succeeds in giving readers vivid detail for our imagination to work
with.

This
Rhapsody on the meaning of life is exciting in every aspect. It is a wonderful poem that will satisfy all the
poetry lovers and not only them. Prose lovers can read this poem too, as the
?free-verse? is appealing to a wider audience. Rich vocabulary selection and
rich images comprise a poem that will speak to the readers? hearts and make
them question their existence on earth.

The book is available from : www.booksurge.com

and www.Amazon.com

744 ws.

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