Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry

Contents

contents Preface ix “Double Life” xv I . D O u b l e l I v e s one Dinner at the café marliave 1 “Near Hag’s Head” 57 I I . r e A D I n g s two modernism, Leftism, and the spirit: The Poetry of Lola ridge 61 three The westwardness of everything: irishness in the Poetry of wallace stevens 87 four Lines of Leaving, Lines of returning: John montague’s Double vision 113 five starting from wexford, ending in the sublime: The Poetry of James Liddy 136 six Two for the road: The new irish routes of eamonn wall and Greg Delanty 158 seven The Parish and Lost America: The witness of michael coady’s All Souls 196 eight Back Through Distance: currents of Tradition in the Poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas mcGrath 217 “Crossings” 245 I I I . c r O s s I n g s nine The need for routes: Genealogy in irish American Poetry 249 ten from crispus Attucks to mr. Bones: race in irish American Poetry 279 eleven Over There: irish American Poets return 322 “A Green Road in Clare” 363 I v . t h e W A k e O f e v e r y t h I n g g O n e twelve soundings and erasures: An irish American Poet Digs Up His Past 367 “The Line” 401 notes 403 works cited 433 index 445 viii C o n t e n t s ...