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Thomas Kinsella - Designing for the Exact Needs (Hardcover, New)
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Thomas Kinsella - Designing for the Exact Needs (Hardcover, New)
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This comprehensive study interprets Thomas Kinsella's extraordinary
progress from lyric poems and meditations about fragility and
impermanence to complex assessments of individual isolation and
helplessness in the modern world. His work, which has been knitted
to Dublin city, expresses his engagement with Irish life and
culture in 'Nightwalker', "Poems from Centre City", "Personal
Places", and "The Pen Shop". His involvement with Irish history,
evident in his absorption with the past and his creative
interpretation of the arrival and settling in of prehistoric
people, is demonstrated in his extensive translations from Irish
literature. He is also a universal poet who has explored Jungian
archetypes in New Poems, psychological stress in the 'Wormwood'
sequence, and the notion of meaninglessness in "Her Vertical Smile"
and of living on the edge in "Marginal Economy".In his persistent
search for understanding, he has examined the effects of evil
whether expressed in man's proclivity for destruction, the direct
concern of "Man of War", or the reality of death in the elegies for
Sean O Riada, John F. Kennedy, and his own father. Deprived of a
community of shared values and the reassurances of philosophy or
religion, he has conducted a systematic investigation of the
question of causality and responsibility in the human and divine
spheres, whether articulated by artists like Gustav Mahler or Sean
O Riada or thinkers like St Augustine, Eriugena or Aurelius, and
has verified the role of the artist as measured and exact recorder.
His poems dramatise issues through narrative, elegy, allegory, and
myth and commemorate love, ceremony, natural beauty and creativity
itself.
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