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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Irish American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Irish Americans in literature.

National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Irish American poetry

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Awake in America seeks to establish a conversation between Irish and Irish American literature that challenges many of the long-accepted boundaries between the two.

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".

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268093754

026809375X

OCLC:

794700745