- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 464 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Awake in America (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Awake in America (Online)
- Irish American poetry
- Subject
- Note
- "Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preface -- "Double life. Double lives -- Dinner at the Café Marliave -- "Near hag's head" -- Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge -- The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision -- Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy -- Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty -- The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls -- Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath -- "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry -- From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry -- Over there : Irish American poets return -- "A green road in Clare" -- The wake of everything gone -- Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past -- "The line".
- LCCN
- 2011025683
- OCLC
- ssj0000606206
- Author
Tobin, Daniel.
- Title
Awake in America [electronic resource] : on Irish American poetry / Daniel Tobin.
- Imprint
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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