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- Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
As the first comprehensive study of Irish American poetry ever published, Awake in America seeks to establish a conversation between Irish and Irish American literature that challenges many of the long-accepted boundaries between the two. In this distinctive book, Daniel Tobin presents a series of essays that combine poetry and literary criticism to form what he calls the poet’s essay. The first section of Awake in America reconsiders the dual tradition of Irish poetry through discussions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets as well as contemporary writers. The second section features a series of shorter chapters on poets in America. The third section explores the theme of “Crossings” and includes a consideration of Irish American and African American literature. The fourth, and final, section is comprised of a compositional memoir in which Tobin explores the role of hidden history in his own long poem, The Narrows. Awake in America offers an innovative reading of literary tradition in light of the routes by which tradition evolves as well as the roots from which tradition originates. It will be welcomed by poetry aficionados and by all scholars and readers of Irish and Irish American literature.
Table of Contents
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- Double Life
- p. xv
- Part 1 Double Lives
- p. xvii
- 1. Dinner at the Café Marliave
- pp. 1-56
- Near Hag’s Head
- p. 57
- Part 2 Readings
- p. 59
- Part 3 Crossings
- p. 247
- 11. Over There: Irish American Poets Return
- pp. 322-361
- A Green Road in Clare
- pp. 363-364
- Works Cited
- pp. 433-443
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268093754
Related ISBN(s)
9780268042370
MARC Record
OCLC
794700745
Pages
424
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No