Research Catalog

Title

Awake in America : on Irish American poetry / Daniel Tobin.

Author

Tobin, Daniel.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.

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Description

xiii, 464 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Irish American poetry

Subject

• American poetry > History and criticism
• Irish Americans in literature
• National characteristics, Irish, in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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".

ISBN

• 9780268042370 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268042373 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011025683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library