Contemporary Irish poetry /
The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element--an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers--as well as by a salutary realism and irony. This revised edition features the wo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1988], ©1988
Berkeley : c1988 Berkeley : ©1988 Berkeley : c1988 Berkeley : [1988] |
| Edition: | New and rev. ed |
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| Summary: | The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element--an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers--as well as by a salutary realism and irony. This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first. -- Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographies and indexes Includes indexes This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xix, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xix, 526 p. : ports. ; 24 cm xix, 526 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0520058747 (pbk.) 0520058747 0520059271 9780520058743 (pbk.) 9780520058743 9780520059276 |