Ciaran Carson's Selected Poems represents--while yet in full current--the early prodigious poetic creativity of one of Ireland's great writers. This selection gathers poems from The New Estate (1976), The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1989), First Language (1993), Opera Et Cetera (1996), The Alexandrine Plan (1998), and The Twelfth of Never (1998), all published in North America by Wake Forest University Press. In their play, these books plumb and delve so deeply that they touch and transform philosophical, ...
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Ciaran Carson's Selected Poems represents--while yet in full current--the early prodigious poetic creativity of one of Ireland's great writers. This selection gathers poems from The New Estate (1976), The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1989), First Language (1993), Opera Et Cetera (1996), The Alexandrine Plan (1998), and The Twelfth of Never (1998), all published in North America by Wake Forest University Press. In their play, these books plumb and delve so deeply that they touch and transform philosophical, political, and religious ideas. As the English poet Glyn has said, "Time and again, Carson refracts the barren and weary images of Northern Ireland, the graffiti, troops and peace wall, into the infinite possibilities of the Otherwise."
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Good. GOOD BOOK! FIRST EDITION WITH A FEW SMALL NOTES IN TEXT, NO SPINE CREASES & MILD SHELF WEAR ON COVER. The New Yorker: Like the work of many of his Irish contemporaries, Carson's is a poetry of unlikely juxtapositions. In "Belfast Confetti, " a bomb punctuates the poet's day: "Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion / Itself—an asterisk on the map." Carson's rhymes are virtuosic—"lips" and "lapse" "Antipodes" and "tippy-toes"—but such frills nurture rather than obscure his evocations. In an early poem, a woman throws soot on her flower beds and waits for spring, when "it would emerge softly / As the ink-bruise in the pansy's heart." Copyright 2005 The New Yorker.
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