| Description |
l, 925 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 889-900) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part One, A fluent drift: Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America / George Berkeley -- The Porqupiniad / Mathew Carey -- Song composed on the Banks of Newfoundland / James Orr - Avenia / Thomas Branagan -- The Haunts of Larne / James McHenry -- Don Isle / Sarah Helen Whitman / I Am the Little Irish Boy / Henry David Thoreau -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- The Bridal Veil ; Snowed Under / Alice Cary -- On Raising a Monument to the Irish Legion / Charles G. Halpine -- At Fredericksburg ; The Exile of the Gael ; Crispus Attucks / Boyle O'Reilly - Persepolis ; Netchaieff / James Jeffrey Roche - Monterey ; The Workers / Daniel O'Connell -- John Boyle O'Reilly / James Whitcomb Riley -- Maurice De Guerin / Maurice Francis Egan -- Gloucester Harbor ; An Epitaph for Wendell Phillips ; Two Irish Peasant Songs ; The Wild Ride ; Monochrome / Louise Imogene Guiney -- The Fettered / Kate McPhelim Cleary -- Shadrach O'Leary ; A Song at Shannon's ; The Dark Hills ; The Sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Och¿n! A Dhonncha (My Sorrow, Doncha) / Padraig O'Heigeartaigh -- John Boyle O'Reilly / Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Part Two, Modern tide: The Ghetto ; Brooklyn Bridge ; The Edge ; To Larkin ; Death Ray / Lola Ridge -- The Cow's in the Corn / Robert Frost -- To a Friend in the Country / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Our Stars Come From Ireland ; The Irish Cliffs of Moher / Wallace Stevens -- Hawaiian ; A Rann of Exile / Padraic Colum -- Sand and Spray: A Sea Symphony ; Elegy in a Civil War Graveyard / John Gould Fletcher -- They Went Forth to Battle but They Always Fell / Sheamus O'Sheel -- Continent's End ; Shane O'Neill's Caim ; The Broadstone ; Antrim ; Iona: The Graves of the Kings ; An Irish Headland ; The Stone Axe ; Carmel Point ; Patronymic / Robinson Jeffers -- The Fish ; The Pangolin ; Spenser's Ireland / Marianne Moore - Irish ; Saint Patrick's Day, 1926 ; Poem ; Poem for a Negro Voice / Ernest Walsh -- Medusa ; Women ; Cassandra ; Hypocrite Swift ; Zone / Louise Bogan -- Longface Mahoney Discusses Heaven ; Among the Shades I Heard My Father's Father ; Fortune for Mirabel ; Seascape at Evening: Cape Ann ; On a Celtic Mask by Henry Moore / Horace Gregory -- The Celt ; Hermit ; Ireland ; Cromwell ; St. Brigid's / Robert Francis -- A Poem of Gratitude ; The New Emigration ; To America / Kay Boyle -- Phrase ; Atlantic Song ; History / Robert Fitzgerald -- Missouri Sequence ; Nightfall, Midwinter, Missouri ; Muse, June, Related ; Missouri, Midsummer, Closure / Brian Coffey -- June in the Suburbs ; Blues for a Melodeon / Phyllis McGinley -- Last before America / Louis MacNeice -- Mr. Mahoney ; First Woman ; Voyage / Josephine Jacobsen -- Gob Music ; The Shy Man / Theodore Roethke -- Pacific Lament ; Enniscorthy Suite ; The Grandfather-Father Poem / Charles Olson -- Agnosco Veteris Vestigia Flammae ; "You have here no otherness" ; Montana Fifty Years Ago / J.V. Cunningham -- To Robinson Jeffers / Czeslaw Milosz -- The Dream Songs / John Berryman -- A Rhapsody on Irish Themes / Randall Jarrell -- Martha Graham / James Laughlin -- No Country for the Young / Eugene McCarthy -- Ode for the American Dead in Asia ; The End of the World ; Columbus ; The Topography of History ; Love in a Bus / Thomas McGrath -- Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat / Gwendolyn Brooks -- For Eugene McCarthy ; Milgate / Robert Lowell -- The Storing of the Soul ; Let It Blow / Reed Whittemore -- Gaelic Legacy ; Flying the Zuni Mountains / Ann Darr -- For the Old Yeats / James Schevill -- The Big Wind ; Dachau is Now Open for Visitors ; Immanence / Daniel Berrigan -- Her Song / Hayden Carruth -- The So-Called Wild Horses of the Water ; Mockery Against the Irish Censorship ; Sailing to Jerusalem ; On Voyage ; Note: The Sea Grinds Things Up / Alan Dugan -- At Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo ; Dublin Suite: Homage to James Joyce / John Logan -- Our Father ; Poem ; Salute / James Schuyler -- The Peat-Bog Man ; The Middleaged Man / Louis Simpson -- Homage to St. Patrick, Garcia Lorca, & the Itinerant Grocer / Philip Whalen -- Our Father ; Brendan Gone ; Old Poet / Padraic Fiacc -- The Pieces of My Voice ; Hymn ; Expressions of Sea Level ; Passage ; Easter Morning ; Night Finding ; Feel Like Traveling On / A. R. Ammons -- Theresa's Friends ; An Irishman's Lament on the Approaching Winter ; Water ; For Ted Berrigan ; America ; For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley / Robert Creeley -- A Note to Harold Fondren ; Walking with Larry Rivers ; On a Passage in Beckett's Watt & About Geo. Montgomery ; Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets ; The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara -- Goodbye ; The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World ; The Shoes of Wandering / Galway Kinnell -- York Maine ; Jazz ; Oscar Wilde Lament ; Dark Horses Rushing / Leo Connellan -- In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day ; Aunt Rectita's Good Friday ; Celebrations After the Death of John Brennan ; Ool About to Proclaim a Parable / X. J. Kennedy -- The Good Fight / Thomas Kinsella -- The Cage ; A Muddy Cup ; A Christmas Card ; A Flowering Absence ; The Locket ; All Legendary Obstacles / John Montague -- Looking Upward at a Waterford Glass Chandelier ; The Harvester's Vase ; Wittgenstein Reads Finnegans Wake in Provence: A Pauline Reflection ; The Five Seasons of Obsession / Ned O'Gorman -- Spell for Not Dying Again ; Empty God ; Some of Us Are Exiles from No Land / Diana O'Hehir -- The Cold Irish Earth ; Location ; The Beautiful White Cow / Knute Skinner -- Walking to Cootehill ; Saying the Names ; The Storm / John Engels -- Frank O'Hara ; Heloise / Ted Berrigan -- Indian Paintbrush ; Into the Wind ; Sunset with Red Rain / Catherine Savage Brosman -- A White Thought in a White Shade ; I Hear the Wife of the Governor of Wisconsin Singing ; Lines for Gareth and Janet Dunleavy ; Wonderful Tennessee ; Gold Set Dancing / James Liddy -- The Magpies of Dublin / Jeri McCormick -- My Father on His Shield ; The Waltz We Were Born For ; Heirlooms / Walt McDonald -- Good Sweat ; The Immigrant / Ted McNulty -- In Ireland ; Veracruz / George Stanley -- Pilgrims ; The River at Wolf ; To Ireland ; Eighteen / Jean Valentine -- Haruspex ; A Woman from Connaught ; Towards the Day of Liberation ; Poem for the Jews / Robert Kelly -- With One Continuous Breath ; Burial Instructions / Anne Kennedy -- A Famine Field ; Sea Writer: Sands / James J . McAuley |
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Part three, Further harbors: My Grandmother Steals Her Last Trout ; A Holy Well ; Carrowkeel ; Hearing Irish Spoken ; 1847 ; Brother Francisco Anthony Eats an Apple / Brendan Galvin -- Letter to Maryknoll / Renny Golden -- Hinge Picture ; Closed Fist Withholding an Open Palm / Susan Howe -- The Alphabet of Singing ; Etruscan ; The Ship / Sabra Loomis -- The Letter / Michael Coady -- Inheriting the Gift of Blarney ; Why Jesus was Crucified ; Portrait,With Lightning Rod / Philip Dacey -- The House Of My Birth ; The Tile Setter ; The Gospel Singer Testifies / Susan Donnelly -- Regardless ; The Resurrection ; Oklahoma City ; Something Like Happiness ; Afterlife / Stephen Dunn -- Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report ; Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard,West Virginia / Irene McKinney -- The Begotten / James McMichael - Ararat ; The Soul ; For Jay Gatsby / Peter Cooley -- Revision ; Space / John Donoghue -- Seven Poems / Fanny Howe -- Directions Down ; The Afterlife on Squaw Peak ; St. John's Point / Fred Marchant -- The Big House / Sean O'Dwyer -- The Alaska Range ; Homecoming / Tom Sexton -- A Quiet Pint in Kinvara ; A Backward Glance at Galway / Richard Tillinghast -- My Mother and the Shepherdess ; Grandfather / Karen Brennan -- The Black Weir ; Prolepsis / Tom Clark -- Tourist: Dromahair, Co. Sligo ; Afternoon with Irish Cows ; Home Again ; Design ; Questions about Angels ; The Afterllife / Billy Collins -- Traveller ; Men Roofing ; Walk, Night Falling, Memory of My Father ; Levitations / Eamon Grennan -- Global Village ; Beauty and the Beast ; Key West ; 'To Mrs. Moore at Inishannon' / Derek Mahon -- To My Father, Dying in a Supermarket ; Blame ; History by George B. Yeaton / Wesley McNair -- Words for Unaccompanied Voice at Dunmore Head ; Working the Rain Shift at Flanagan's ; With Thanks for a Shard from Sandycove ; The Enniskillen Bombing ; Miles From New Grange at the Winter Solstice / Gibbons Ruark -- Kennedy ; To Cathleen at Patricktide ; The Atonement ; A Rhetoric Upon the Window ; A Highway Brook in Dingle ; Merciless Beauty / Michael Heffernan -- The South Orange Sonnets / Michael Lally - Love in the Western World / Kathy Callaway -- Still Moment at Dun Laoghaire ; Second Language ; Disappearances in the Guarded Sector ; The Ballad of Ballymote ; Lie Down with the Lamb / Tess Gallagher -- Hanging Family Photographs / Kathleen Lynch -- To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons ; October 1913 ; Local / Linda McCarriston -- She had her socks rolled up over her pants ; like an Irish brat ; Anonymous ; "Can I Still Love You & Hate the Word Husband?" / Maureen Owen -- The Emigrant Irish ; Home ; In Exile ; In a Bad Light / Eavan Boland -- Lineage ; Alma ; The Ballad Singers ; Backwater / Kathryn Stripling Byer --Farewell to My Protestant Cousins at Inch ; Wilton Castle, County Wexford / James Chapson -- Rowen ; Li¿s ; Yarrow Charm / Thomas Dillon Redshaw -- The Mother Tongue ; The Holy Alls / Ben Howard -- Irish Prospects / J. D. McClatchy -- Caitlin's Poem ; On Laying Keel / G. E. Murray -- Passage Graves ; In the Garden / Michael D. Riley -- Sweeney at Prayer ; Two Worlds ; The Past / Betsy Sholl -- A Short History of 20th-Century Irish Music in America ; Shadow Grammar ; Noise Under Glass / Terence Winch -- The Annunciation ; Magdalen's Song ; Water / Christopher Jane Corkery -- The Other Side / Ed Cox -- The Irish Wilderness ; Tongue. The End of the World is Roadless. Exile ; The Cloud of Unknowing / Dennis Finnell -- Soliloquy of the Irish Poet ; The American Dream / Vicki Hearne -- Somnambulist ; Waked by Wind, Sea Talk / Joan Houlihan -- What the Wind Said ; Kevin Barry Gave His Young Life / Patricia Monaghan -- The Pure Loneliness ; The Past ; God Hunger ; Switchblade ; A Version of Happiness ; God / Michael Ryan -- Elegy for Snow ; The Tidal Wave ; Ode to Berryman ; Croagh Patrick / Maura Stanton -- Geography / Susan Wood -- Inchemekinna ; A Granite Stairway: St. Joseph's School for Boys ; Sailing to Thai Binh / Kevin Bowen -- A Bummer ; Learning / Michael Casey -- Our Mother Tongue ; Procession of All Souls / Geraldine Connolly -- Steady Dreamers ; Lace Stone Walls / John Maloney -- Vows of Chastity and Indulgence ; Saved ; After Sin¿ad O'Connor Appears on Saturday Night Live, the Pope / Maureen Seaton -- Waterford ; Leabai ; Passage to Kilronan ; Road Fever / R. T. Smith -- Slow Airs ; Feis ; Country Night, County Donegal / Nathalie Anderson -- My Mother's Rosaries ; The Lives of the Saints / Susan Firer -- The Uilleann Pipes ; The Invention of Zero / Richard Kenney -- Among Things Held at Arm's Length ; Madrigal / Mary Leader -- The Moveen Notebook ; A Rhetoric upon Brother Michael's Rhetoric upon the Window / Thomas Lynch -- Faith ; Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley ; A Physics ; Nano-Knowledge / Heather McHugh -- Irish Music ; Bunny Mayo in the New World / Larry Levis -- The Mystery of the Caves ; Mythology ; Brooklyn Waterfall ; Christ at the Apollo, 1962 / Michael Waters -- Ancestress ; In the Yeats Class, Summer Term ; Clairvoyant's Reading / Carolyne Wright -- Translations from the Irish ; Midsummer's Night, Cape Clear / Theodore Deppe -- The Dream ; From Nowhere ; Encounter / Marie Howe -- Metaphor for the Past ; Transmigration ; Strauss and the Cows of Ireland / Mekeel McBride -- Sati, Seventh Month, By the Sea ; On the "E" Train / Robert McNamara -- Lynch's Window ; For Mary Lynch ; Scales ; Swift ; Succession / Mary Swander -- Homecoming ; Listening to Lester Young / Edward Byrne -- It's So Much Like Missiles ; The Middleman / David Cavanagh -- Deerfield Series ; Bloody Brook ; Mehuman Hinsdale ; Strength of Heart / Peter Fallon -- Navigation ; For Our Better Graces ; Misericord ; Materialism / James Galvin -- The Place of Trumpets ; Of Ancient Origins and War ; Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Ceili Mor ; To Inishmore ; Driving the Coast Road to Dingle / Ethna McKiernan -- Wedding Ring ; We Take Our Children To Ireland ; Glasnevin ; In Love With It, If It Requires No Tending / Lynne McMahon -- Two Songs for Hendrix ; The Unnamable / James McManus -- Immrama ; Promises, Promises ; 7, Middagh Street ; Milkweed and Monarch / Paul Muldoon -- Euclid Avenue ; Absinthe at New Orleans / Harry Clifton -- Everyone Knows the World is Ending ; Days Through Starch and Bluing ; Maidenhead ; Industrial Lace / Alice Fulton -- Connemara ; Ode to the Big Muddy / Julie Kane -- Song in Killeshandra / Mary Logue -- Three Things Remembered From a Life of Georgia O'Keeffe / James Silas Rogers -- After the Digging ; Randolph Routh to Charles Trevelyan; Memorandum; Passage Out / Alan Shapiro -- The Travellers / Elizabeth Spires -- Who Whispered Near Me ; By Common Salt / Killarney Clary -- The Islander ; Prayers That Open Heaven / Robert McDowell -- The Lullaby of History / Kevin Boyle -- The Islandman ; Aubade for Allihies, County Cork / Michael Carey -- Mid-life, Looking North ; The Saranac River / Michael Coffey -- City of God ; The Classics ; Pentecost ; Reliquary ; Caliban's Books ; Exile's End / Michael Donaghy -- Family Reunion Near Grape Creek Church, ; Four Miles West of Murphy, N.C., 1880 ; The Family Laugh ; The All-Dog Siren Choir / Michael McFee -- The Sirens ; Where the Roads Lead / Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons -- Emigrant ; Between Swilly and Sewanee / Nuala Archer -- The Long Room Gallery, Trinity College Dublin ; The Great Blasket Island ; Home / Julie O'Callaghan --Hart Crane's Bridge ; The Edges of the Nerve: Song for the Americas ; Song at Lake Michigan ; Four Stern Faces /South Dakota ; The Westward Journey / Eamonn Wall - Thistledown ; Offing ; By the Harp Bewery ; First Light / Chris Agee -- I am a virus ; How the Age of Iron Turned to Gold / Patrick Donnelly -- Heirlooms Not Relinquished In the Great Depression / Mary Jane Nealon -- East Side Story ; As in Wild Earth a Grecian Vase ; Exile / Thomas O'Grady -- The Great Road, or How History Knocked the Professor Cold, or A Storyteller's Story, or Why Appalachians Are Mountains and a People / Michael Chitwood -- Drinking: A Suite / Nicole Cooley -- We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No ; The Shrinking World ; On the Renovation of Ellis Island ; Homage to the God of Pollution in Brooklyn ; The Hellbox / Greg Delanty -- Migration ; Tympani / Kathy Fagan -- The Surface ; Long Coat / Laura Mullen -- Double Life ; A Mosque in Brooklyn ; St. John / Daniel Tobin -- Woman Falls Asleep Doing a Crossword / Jean Monahan -- Columbus Rides Again: White ; They Write ; On a Trawler to the Mainland / Gerard Donovan - Pow Wow at Greenbriar / John Flynn -- The ocean is always looking for a way into your boat ; Father Outside / Nick Flynn -- Family History ; The Vastness. The Distant Twinkling ; The Fidgeting / Chris Forhan -- The Secularist ; Ave Verum Corpus / Claudia Keelan -- Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory ; Angels and the Bars of Manhattan ; Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky ; Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach / Campbell McGrath -- Balleek ; First Frost / Elizabeth Oness -- Learning Death / Chrsitine Casson -- Pattern for a Sweater ; Irish ; Evening Burning / Ann Townsend -- Sacrifice ; Aisling / Ed Madden -- Snow ; The Adventure / Stephen McNally -- The Miraculous Draft of Fishes ; Blue Heron / Jennifer O'Grady -- The Prodigal Father ; Gin / Meg Kearney -- Sandalwood ; Lamplighting / Christopher Cahill -- Safe Haven ; Holy Water ; The Island ofWomen / Aidan Rooney -- 29th Birthday / Joseph Lennon -- The Names of Things / Beth Ann Fennelly -- The Execution Sonnets / Jill McDonnagh -- The Question and Its Mark / Brenda Shaughnessy -- Letter from Madeline Island / Tyler Farrell - Hometown / Kathleen Rooney -- On Touring the U.N. with My Mother-in-Law / Colleen Abel. |
| Summary |
This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose work enjoys Irish American themes. The Book of Irish American Poetry draws together the best and most representative poetry by Irish Americans and about Irish America that has been written over the past three hundred years. Daniel Tobin begins with poetry of the "populist period" (poets such as John Boyle O'Reilly), and moves to the work of Irish Americans who have made an indelible imprint on American poetry: Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, John Berryman, Thomas McGrath, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Galway Kinnell, and Alan Dugan, among others. The anthology concludes with distinctive poems by contemporary Irish Americans whose work is likely to stand the test of time, such as Tess Gallagher, Brendan Galvin, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. 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. -- Publisher description. |
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American poetry -- Irish American authors.
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Irish Americans -- Poetry.
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Ireland -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Tobin, Daniel.
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| ISBN |
9780268042301 alkaline paper |
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0268042306 alkaline paper |
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