The inter-related poems in this collection are conversations between the poet and his father. The book outlines a difficult relationship, and the poems become a gesture toward someone unknown yet terribly familiar, echoing, perhaps, everyman's relationship with his father. The rigor of the father's approach, in language accurate, strenuous and bold, is released. The exchanges are sharp and the relationship is dramatically developed. The table forms a focus and an image, and the city of Cork is made vibrantly real throughout ...
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The inter-related poems in this collection are conversations between the poet and his father. The book outlines a difficult relationship, and the poems become a gesture toward someone unknown yet terribly familiar, echoing, perhaps, everyman's relationship with his father. The rigor of the father's approach, in language accurate, strenuous and bold, is released. The exchanges are sharp and the relationship is dramatically developed. The table forms a focus and an image, and the city of Cork is made vibrantly real throughout the poem.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to DJ, slight sunning of page edges, very small closed tear and slight bump to lower right front corner. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p.
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Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.