The Cultural Society, paperback
Publication Date: September 19, 2026
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"Poetry is fundamentally the search for a form that will release the flood of language that gathers and seethes in us. In Onlikenesses, it feels as though Peter O'Leary has located his ideal form. In writing a long poem whose (almost) every line begins with "like," O'Leary has created something dazzlingly rich that accesses with extraordinary rapidity and dexterity the full range of his voice and all its manifold lyric qualities. We have confession, tender and intimate address, political outrage, memory, biology, geology, the Abyss, the passing of aeons, log cabins, the mystical structure of cathedrals, theodicies, porches, grasses, birds, music, water, arcana and a thousand other flashes of light burning off the objects, beings, ideas, and histories that grab his attention. In this, his magnum opus, he embraces both the "one likeness" and the "un-likeness" of all things—their singlehood in the one creation; their dizzying and beautiful variety in the fallen world." - Toby Martinez De Las Rivas
