In "The Kick, " Irish poet Richard Murphy constructs--from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over five decades--a memoir of his personal life and the violent legacies of Anglo-Irish history. In unsparing prose, he writes about painfully delicate personal issues, including his sexuality, as well as the Protestant gentry from which he comes. With serene, devastating honesty, he describes the literary milieus of London, Dublin, and New York and his friendships and encounters with some of the leading postwar writers, ...
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In "The Kick, " Irish poet Richard Murphy constructs--from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over five decades--a memoir of his personal life and the violent legacies of Anglo-Irish history. In unsparing prose, he writes about painfully delicate personal issues, including his sexuality, as well as the Protestant gentry from which he comes. With serene, devastating honesty, he describes the literary milieus of London, Dublin, and New York and his friendships and encounters with some of the leading postwar writers, including W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, J.R. Ackerley, Laura Riding, Robert Graves, John McGahern, and Conor Cruise O'Brien. These are the personal, literary, and political engagements of a lifetime, as recounted by a poet with the "gift of epic objectivity."
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN: 9781862075702.
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VG in VG DJ. Irish poet Richard Murphy draws on five decades of private notebooks to create a unique memoir of his life and times. Written with the personality of a dairy and full of a diary and disparaging wit, his memoir takes us from a decayed Protestant 'Big House' in the west of Ireland to the colonial island of Ceylon where in the 1930s, the author's father was the last British Mayor of Colombo. Boarding school, Oxford, C.S. Lewis, discrimination against the Irish.
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Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in very good condition! The cover and any other included accessories are also in very good condition showing some minor use. The spine is straight there are no rips tears or creases on the cover or the pages.
