Ghost Gear : Poems

“andrew Mcfadyen-ketchum Is Not A Poet Of Small Ambition. He Reaches After Big Subjects In The High Style, And—mirabile Dictu—he Brings It Off. There Is Something Of Walt Whitman In Mcfadyen-ketchum. He Is A Rhapsodist Spinning Words Into A Musical Web. Line By Line The Poems Pulse With Verbal Energy. His Language Is All Meat And Muscle. And Yet, At The Heart Of The Poems, One Finds Not Simply A Literary Performance But A Tender Alertness To The World.” —dana Gioia, Author Of Pity The Beautiful: Poems And Interrogations At Noon: Poems