James C. McCullagh

Chanting the Feminine Down is a historical novel in which the female protagonist Colette travels across and through 2,000 years of Catholic Church history in her heart, spirit, mind and soul looking for traces of the feminine. She is attentive to theology, but ultimately she is guided by riotous dream voices that are prophetic, disruptive and profoundly feminine.

USS Bunker Kills: A Sea Story is an historical, coming-of-age novel about a British immigrant, Neil Strikker, who joins the American Navy during the height of the Vietnam War.

The Archetype of the Gun, modeled on the dramatic structure and tone of an epic poem, examines in images and metaphor the psychological, religious, and mythological nature of the gun in America.

In the Shadow of the DMZ is a book-length poem about war -- its terror and initiation.

The Sirens of Vulture Creek is set in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania when the mines and steel mills are dying but the hunting ethic, often marked by brutality, lives.

Limey Down is a darkly-comic, coming-of-age novel about a post World War II London teenager Neil Strikker growing up in an Irish-Catholic world of penury, sharp elbows and lots of mischief.

The archetypal elements in Set Pieces of the Feminine float just below the surface. The book's gang of players, many of them men, who as the protagonist in "Love as Calligraphy" moves "roughly to her sex" but is "slowed by a voice/cautioning him that the sweet/path is through the pictographs/climbing from her low hem/to her girdled neck." Poetry is the language of slowing down, moving inside and staying with the image. This book does just that.

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This was my first book of poetry based on four years in the U.S. Navy, most of them in the South China Sea and the Tonkin Gulf during the run-up to the Vietnam War.

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Ways to Play is about "playful" individuals and families who have discovered interesting ways to occupy their leisure time, both through community projects and a variety of games.

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