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Wolf Tongue (Paperback)
Barry MacSweeney
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Barry MacSweeney was born in 1948 and died in 2000. He published
numerous collections, including The Templars of Hazard and The Book
of Demons, his last book. It recorded his fierce fight against
alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his
life--though only for three more years. When he died he had just
assembled a retrospective of his work. Wolf Tongue is his own
selection, with the addition of the last two books that many regard
as his finest work, Pearl and The Book of Demons. Most of his
poetry was out-of-print, and much had never been widely published.
The title is his. He was a contrary, a lone wolf. His ear for
soaring, lyric melody was unmatched, and "his poetry became dark as
blue steel, edging towards what became his domain: the lament"--The
Independent. His poetry places a radical, critical energy,
unsparing of illusions, and bitter and comic in its self-appraisal,
at the disposal of a clear-eyed celebration of the world.
Desire Lines: Unselected Poems, 1966-2000 presents work drawn from
across MacSweeney’s writing life. Beginning with The Boy From the
Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother, which brought the 20-year-old
poet fame and notoriety, Desire Lines brings close to 400 pages of
MacSweeney’s poetry back into print. His prolific 1970s are
represented here by eight complete sequences, including the major
political work Black Torch and the previously unpublished long
poems Toad Church and Pelt Feather Log. Drawing on archival
resources and extensive bibliographic resources, Desire Lines
collects the majority of MacSweeney’s poetry not included in Wolf
Tongue: Selected Poems, 1965-2000. These unselected poems showcase
the full range of his capabilities: from raw lyrical emotion to
modernist fragmentation, from historical narrative to surreal
invention and absurd humour. Including five unpublished poems from
the 1980s – including the `State of the Nation Bullerin’
Revulsion and the tender, heartbroken `Soft Hail’ –
MacSweeney’s essential contribution to modern poetry can be seen
to its full extent. Alongside translations from the French of
Guillaume Apollinaire, Desire Lines includes an introduction and
notes on the texts by the editor.
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