Each of Greg Delanty's six books so far published is an entity in itself, and a single-seeming movement. Bringing the books together in a single volume, juxtaposing them as they were this work reveals the enormous resourcefulness and wit of this unusual poet who keenly interweaves material and themes drawn from his reading, writing and living (there is no real line between them). Marriage, childbirth, friendship, landscapes-Irish and Indian and American, real and imagined, politics, the personal and private and the public; ...
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Each of Greg Delanty's six books so far published is an entity in itself, and a single-seeming movement. Bringing the books together in a single volume, juxtaposing them as they were this work reveals the enormous resourcefulness and wit of this unusual poet who keenly interweaves material and themes drawn from his reading, writing and living (there is no real line between them). Marriage, childbirth, friendship, landscapes-Irish and Indian and American, real and imagined, politics, the personal and private and the public; all these are organized as a word, a line, a stanza and are made from a tray of type, as in a tapestry the unseen sewing happens and holds, and as in growth a foetus evolves into a child. Things fall apart, too, and there is pattern and method in that process as well. The poems draw on a rich inheritance from Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial, the different worlds that Delanty moves in. Past and future, their people and places, inform and interpret one another in this volume. It includes in full the text of Greg Delanty's collections: "Cast in the Fire" (1986), "Southward" (1992), "American Wake" (1995), "The Hellbox" (1998), "The Blind Stitch" (2001) and "The Ship of Birth" (2003).
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