Medbh McGuckian's subject in The Book of the Angel is religious, but it is never conventional. The title is derived from the Liber Angeli, a Latin document of Early Christian Ireland in which Saint Patrick, speaking with an angel, is granted the ecclesiastical see of Armagh. The images are drawn from Mediaeval and Renaissance art and are as driven by the irreconcilable mysteries of Christ's Passion and Incarnation, by the sacred and profane, as was the work of the old masters. The poet's landscapes are tangible, painterly, ...
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Medbh McGuckian's subject in The Book of the Angel is religious, but it is never conventional. The title is derived from the Liber Angeli, a Latin document of Early Christian Ireland in which Saint Patrick, speaking with an angel, is granted the ecclesiastical see of Armagh. The images are drawn from Mediaeval and Renaissance art and are as driven by the irreconcilable mysteries of Christ's Passion and Incarnation, by the sacred and profane, as was the work of the old masters. The poet's landscapes are tangible, painterly, moving from the angels of Ireland to those of Los Angeles and Hollywood--and toward unreality in the Baroque tradition of trompe l'oeil. McGuckian's poems remind one how different poetry is from prose; why it is a sister art of music and painting.
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Seller's Description:
First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Condition: fine, with fine dust jacket. --Wes Davis says poet Medbh McGuckian has the "ability to stitch the competing elements of the lives of Irish women into a unique and compelling poetic voice." ISBN 1852353635.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Wake Forest University Press, 2005; limited First North American Edition, signed and numbered by Medbh McGuckian on half-title page, this copy 10 of 200. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; brown cloth boards in VG condition, corners sharp, silver foil titling remains bright and bold; text also very good. Plain white dust jacket in VG condition, arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
