This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It
breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary
scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two
hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose
work enjoins Irish American themes. What does it mean to be an
Irish American poet? The Book of Irish American Poetry answers this
question by drawing together the best and most representative
poetry by Irish Americans and about Irish America that has been
written over the past three hundred years. The question is not
merely rhetorical, claims Daniel Tobin in the introduction, for it
raises the issue of a certain kind of imaginative identity that has
rarely, if ever, been adequately explored. This anthology brings
together exemplary poetry of the "populist period"of Irish American
verse (in particular the work of poets such as John Boyle
O'Reilly), with the work of those Irish Americans who have made an
indelible imprint on American poetry: Robinson Jeffers, Marianne
Moore, Louise Bogan, John Berryman, Thomas McGrath, John Montague,
Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson, Galway
Kinnell, X. J. Kennedy, and Alan Dugan, among others. Finally, the
anthology includes distinctive poems by contemporary Irish
Americans whose work is most likely to stand the test of time:
poets such as Tess Gallagher, Alice Fulton, Brendan Galvin, Marie
Howe, Susan Howe, Billy Collins, Michael Ryan, Richard Kenney, and
Brigit Pegeen Kelly. The poems in this collection cut across the
broad spectrum of American poetry and place Irish Americans within
every notable school of American poetry, from modernism to
confessionalism and the Beats, from formalism to imagism, and from
projectivism to the New York School and Language poets. The Book of
Irish American Poetry recovers many poets who have been forgotten
and places already notable figures in American poetry within the
context of a distinctively Irish American tradition. This important
work of literary scholarship will dominate the field for years to
come.
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