Add this copy of The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems to cart. $16.58, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Wake Forest Univ Pr.
Add this copy of The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems to cart. $16.95, good condition, Sold by Ed's Editions, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Columbia, SC, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Wake Forest Univ Pr.
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Good. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding and crisp pages, no marks or notations. Some mild wear to edges of dust jacket and two small tears (1/4-1/2 inch) at top of dust jacket on either side of spine. HS. *LO.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Gift inscription by and signed by Murphy. The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems collects the major work of one of Ireland's most admired and accomplished poets. Richard Murphy's first book, Sailing to an Island, received considerable acclaim when it was published in 1963. Since that auspicious beginning, Murphy has received increasing praise for such qualities as his "sureness of direction in the art and a poised and appeased self-knowledge" (Seamus Heaney) and his "liberation of language and feeling, the Hardyesque purity of diction" (Maurice Harmon). In addition to poems from Sailing to an Island and The Battle of Aughrim (1968), this collection includes all of the poems published in High Island (1974) and Murphy's newer sequences, Care (nineteen lyrics) and The Price of Stone (fifty sonnets). The new poems continue themes present in earlier work, including powerful representations of the stark landscape, rugged inhabitants, and stone structures of the west coast of Ireland. They explore as well the price of stonewalling, that is, of reticence, of concealing the self. Obliquely confessional poetry in which architectural structures and places address the poet and the reader, the sonnet sequence sings of love for wife, son and daughter, lovers, the travelers of Ireland and other outcasts, but especially love of place. Sometimes, archaic language consorts with the Renaissance function of the sonnet to commemorate the lover: "Here, too, buried in rhyme, lovers lie dead, / Engraved in words that live each time they're read" ("Friary"). At other times the sonnets sing the language of a new generation.
Add this copy of The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems to cart. $40.50, like new condition, Sold by Archer's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kent, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Wake Forest UP.
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Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. Inscribed by Author. Blue cloth. Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: poetry; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0916390241. ISBN/EAN: 9780916390242. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17850.
