| Southward: Poems Contributor(s): Delanty, Greg (Author) |
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ISBN: 080711734X ISBN-13: 9780807117347 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1992 Annotation: Many of the poems in Southward, Greg Delanty's second collection, evoke the Ireland that was and is. In others the poet mourns the loss of a lover, the death of his father, the plight of an emigrant separated from those he is close to. The achievement of Southward promise a long and vibrant career for this award-winning young poet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 91-27438 |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6.06" W x 9.01" (0.27 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In "Home from Home," Greg Delanty encapsulates an immigrant's lament: "I'm in a place, but it is not in me." A native of Ireland who now spends much of his time in the United States, Delanty has assembled in Southward a collection of poems whose settings are predominantly Cork City and County Kerry, in the southernmost part of the Irish Republic, a region warmed by the Gulf Stream and by a people whose language is as vivid as the area's abundant wild fuchsia. In "The Fuchsia Blaze," Delanty writes: The purple petticoated& crimson frocks of the open flowers are known as Dancers, blown by the fast & slow airs of the wind; one minute sean-n s melancholy, the next jigging & reeling like Irish character itself & like these, my fuchsia verse, struggling to escape the English garden & flourish in a wilder landscape In many of the poems Delanty evokes the Ireland that was and is, while in others he mourns the loss of a lover, the death of his father, separation from his mother. In "The Emigrant's Apology," through a haunting image of a black-scarfed woman worshiping alone, he describes his mother, who, with the loss of her husband and the scattering of her family, is a symbol of the grief of separation from his mother. In "The Emigrant's Apology," through a haunting image of a black-scarfed woman worshiping alone, he describes his mother, who, with the loss of her husband and the scattering of her family, is a symbol of the grief of separation. Always home in the natural world, even in his adopted landscape, Delanty closes the book with a handful of poems set in the United States. The imagery of these latter poems ranges from a quiet pond in southern Florida to a military base on the border of Canada, and their concerns range from the personal to the political. |