The Belfast notebooks : poems & prose / Jeffrey Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Jeffrey, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland : Salmon Poetry, 2017.

Summary:

The Belfast Notebooks traces a poet's journey deep into a country where "the wine tastes of jasmine and history" as it evokes layers of violence, memory, and community. Ranging across Northern Ireland through Italy, Spain, Morocco, and back home to Maine, these poems from Jeffrey Thomson's fifth full-length collection engage myth and classical art just as easily as they riff on rock music and street murals. They are raucous and rowdy and love a good pint. Full of the history everyone knows and the legends no one speaks, this book feels at once intimate and sweeping, personal and limitless, written by a citizen of the wounded city where the scar of memory lingers and is healed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Led Zeppelin Debuts "Stairway to Heaven," Ulster Hall, March 5, 1971 11

The New Faces of Belfast 14

Of Brian Boru, the first King of Ireland, it is said, 15

Certain things here are quietly American 16

Van Morrison Performs "Sometimes We Cry" with his Daughter, Odyssey Arena, Belfast 17

Man vs. Wild 19

Pole Dancing for Easter 21

Stroke City 23

Self-portrait in Nine Generations 25

Watercolor Painting Class 26

The Pyre in Holywood 27

The Mona Lisa of Belfast 28

DaVinci Drawings in the Ulster Museum 29

Two Northern Crows 31

Samson and Goliath 32

Silence 34

Styles of Hell: a Sequence 35

Elegy with Penelope and a Vineyard in It 55

The Rolling Stones Visit the Cave of Hercules, Morocco, 1967 60

Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 62

The Giant's Ring 63

Rain, or a local poet long gone returns 64

Surfing Dunfagnaghy: Donegal, Ireland 66

Smack Daniel's Band Plays Reggae at the Colle Ameno, Pontecchio Marconi, Italy 68

For the Blind Man in the Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence 69.

Notes:

Poems and prose.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781910669716

1910669717

OCLC:

982487321

Publisher Number:

99973893450