Higgins's fourth collection displays the author's highly developed social awareness as issues are sifted through her personal experience. She writes of the human striving for something more than the limits imposed by circumstance, in a world in which sadness and humor intermingle with hope. Her work is fresh and exciting is its immediacy -- she lives in these words, in the pictures she paints. One of eleven children, she left school at the age of fourteen, and was in her late twenties when she started writing poetry. In ...
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Higgins's fourth collection displays the author's highly developed social awareness as issues are sifted through her personal experience. She writes of the human striving for something more than the limits imposed by circumstance, in a world in which sadness and humor intermingle with hope. Her work is fresh and exciting is its immediacy -- she lives in these words, in the pictures she paints. One of eleven children, she left school at the age of fourteen, and was in her late twenties when she started writing poetry. In 1986 she published her first collection and now, five books, three plays, and many awards later, she is Writer in Residence at University College in Galway.
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