Prospect of Release — Mandel '71 Nike He was the primary architect

He was the primary architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland

and Foreword by Stuart Kestenbaum

In Cloud Cuckoo Land

He drew on those wartime experiences for the sequence “War’s End

accompanying him on the occasional roofing job

Prospect of Release — Mandel '71 Nike He was the primary architectBy Tom Mandel, Class of 1971 These 50 poems, 700 lines (neither number divisible by three), confront self, other, identity, loss, history, language and meaning through the most concrete instance we have of what poststructuralists call "an absent presence" the death of a parent. This loss of apparent meaning (who gave you your name?) doubles (this father arrived by marriage, already a rhyme for the dead blood kin that came before), invoking tradition,