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Christmas In Dublin by Nuala Archer Staying by Nuala Archer To William Butler Yeats by Wendell Berry The Dream Songs: 290 by John Berryman The Dream Songs: 292 by John Berryman The Dream Songs: 299 by John Berryman The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland Love In The Western World by Kathy Callaway Father by Paul Carroll Parnell by David Cintino Theresa's Friends by Robert Creeley Gaelic Legacy by Ann Russell Darr Looking For Origins by Ann Russell Darr Mockery Against The Irish Censorship by Alan Dugan On Being Out-classed By Class by Alan Dugan The Celt by Robert Francis Cromwell by Robert Francis Ireland by Robert Francis The Ballad Of Ballymote by Tess Gallagher Donegal by Brendan James Galvin A Holy Well by Brendan James Galvin Inventing Ballygalvin by Brendan James Galvin Just In Case You're Wondering Who You Are by Brendan James Galvin Potso, My Wine-dark Uncle by Brendan James Galvin Anthropology by James Galvin A Gentle Art by Eamon Grennan Taking My Son To School by Eamon Grennan Soliloquy Of The Irish Poet by Vicki Hearne Fathers by Michael Joseph Heffernan Kennedy by Michael Joseph Heffernan The Way West by Michael Herrernan Fear Of Irish Sons by Paul T. Hogan My Father, Far In Some Hospital by Paul T. Hogan Of, Or From by Paul T. Hogan Seven-thirty Pun by Paul T. Hogan Visit At One by Paul T. Hogan The Broadstone; Near Finvoy, County Antrim by Robinson Jeffers A Woman From Connaught by Robert Kelly First Confession by X. J. Kennedy Hangover Mass by X. J. Kennedy Goodbye by Galway Kinnell Wyncote, Pennsylvania: A Gloss by Thomas Kinsella Lines For Gareth And Janet Dunleavy by James Liddy The Voice Of America 1961 by James Liddy I'm Irish On The One Side, Scottish On The Other by Gerald Locklin At Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo by John (1923-1987) Logan Dublin Suite: Homage To James Joyce by John (1923-1987) Logan Letter From The Old Sod by Dennis Michael Maloney Green Beer by James J. Mcauley Letter To Richard Hugo From Drumcliff by James J. Mcauley To Austin Clarke by Eugene J. Mccarthy A Graveyard In Queens by John Montague James Joyce by John Montague Respect by John Montague Spenser's Ireland by Marianne Moore Coming Of Age On The Harlem by Joan (1945-) Murray At Trinity College by Maureen Owen In My Dream by Maureen Owen The Shy Man by Theodore Roethke For The Old Yeats by James Schevill Yeats, Riveted To Revisions by James Schevill Our Stars Come From Ireland by Wallace Stevens For W.b. Yeats ... Never Made Young Men Catch Their Breath by Nancy Sullivan Three Anecdotes by Deborah Tall The Celt In Me by Keith Wilson City Of Cork by Keith Wilson Home In The Bronx by Terence Winch My Father by Terence Winch Two Trips To Ireland by David Pollock Young -- Table of Poems from Poem FinderĀ® The subject of this anthology is unusual. Cities with Irish-American populations have Irish libraries, newspapers, fraternal associations and, in recent years, nearby colleges and universities with flourishing Irish Studies Programs. But IrishAmerican poetry is still a novelty. The editor claims that Irish-American poetry has developed in the past twenty-five years and that this is the first anthology on the subject. He is probably right on both counts. He notes that in the period since the election of President Kennedy, poets have begun writing about their unique experience as Irish-Americans, "without shame and without shamrocks." The purpose of the book is to "set minds and moudis in motion to examine, to celebrate, and most importantly, to continue the artistic activity here presented as the IrishAmerican poem." After a brief introduction, the onthology contains sixty-rune poems by forty authors arranged under the headings of "HistoricaLq-egendary, Literary, Family, Travel/Exile/Returre' and a first section headed "Celebrations: First Appearance Poems" which contains a selection of eight poems by five authors. Many of the selections have a tone of Pathos/Nostalgia. The optimism of Irish-Amexican culture celebrated in more pedestrian terms by Andrew Greeley, for example, is not featured in the collectiom A section on Joy/Celebration would have been useful, but~ possibly, such selections do not yet exist in sufficient quantity or quality. The volume contains selections by such authors as John Berryman, Robert Creeley, Thomas Kinsella, Wallace Stevens, and former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy. The volume should certainly be acquired by an Irish Studies Library and it will probably have good sales in bookstores near Irish-American communities. After reading this volume for review, I took it on vacation and read it again. If left at the beachhouse, visiting relatives would have it dog-eared in short order. This is a book to be shared.
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