A Kind of Amnesty Given the Mind

Dicko King's A Kind of Amnesty Given the Mind chronicles the transformation of the young Mikey Mulkerrin as he navigates the historically Irish Catholic neighborhood of South Boston, a story that culminates in Mikey's remaking as Southie's venerable Archangel. A novelette in verse, King's third collection exists in a middle ground between narrative structure and non-linear, lyrical energies. At once a playscript and a poetic epic, enacted in the associative realms that King has created and lived in, A Kind of Amnesty Given the Mind reveals the complex relationships that take shape in a single neighborhood-- between family and friends, gods and mere humans-- whose residents cannot escape the generational influences that forged them, for better or worse.