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Selected Poems | Patrick Kavanagh (Paperback)
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Selected Poems | Patrick Kavanagh (Paperback)
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All Kavanagh's gifts are on display, as Paul Muldoon writes in his
introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of
Patrick Kavanagh's career. In truth, these gifts were hard-won,
from his earliest self-taught verses after leaving primary school
at the age of 13, to his refusal of sanitized pastoral depictions
of rural Ireland while living among Dublin's literary elite, to his
transcendent later poems written in the wake of an operation to
remove one of his lungs after a cancer diagnosis. Throughout his
life, Patrick Kavanagh would carve out a place for himself as one
of Ireland's most important poets with what Muldoon calls the
documentarian's eye and ear for the everyday technical term.
Gathered here are among his best and best-known poems, beginning
with some of his earliest publications in 1930 and continuing
chronologically into the 1960s with essentials from his career, as
well as highlights left unpublished during his lifetime. The Great
Hunger, often considered his major achievement, is presented as a
centerpiece alongside Lough Derg, a poem of nearly equal length and
possibly equal, though unrecognized, importance. Paul Muldoon
presents his selection with a characteristically deft introduction,
weaving biographical details into new ways of looking at Kavanagh's
life and lasting legacy of finding a star-lovely art / In a dark
sod.
General
Imprint: |
Wake Forest University Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Editors: |
Paul Muldoon
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Authors: |
Patrick Kavanagh
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Dimensions: |
216 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
136 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-943667-02-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-943667-02-0 |
Barcode: |
9781943667024 |
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