Cries of an Irish caveman / Paul Durcan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durcan, Paul, 1944-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Poetry.

Ireland.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 159 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Burgess Hill : Printed and bound in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd at Selwood Printing.

Other Title:

Subtitle on book jacket : New poems

Place of Publication:

London : The Harvill Press, [2001]

Summary:

In the four very different sections of Cries of an Irish Caveman Paul Durcan brings his tender lyricism and incisive wit to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death.

The first section describes an experience in Australia, which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within historical and sacramental context a very personal event. And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own twentieth-century romance, replete with ecstasies and inevitable agonies, beauty and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 2001 by The Harvill Press ..."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1860469094 :

1860469108

OCLC:

47676540