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Foreword Caledonia Kearns ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Writing Green Thoughts Sally Barr Ebest 1
Women in Irish American Society
Mary McCarthy: Too Smart to Be Sentimental Sally Barr Ebest 27
Maureen Howard's "Landscapes of Memory" Patricia Keefe Durso 52
Moments of Kindness, Moments of Recognition: The Achievement of Maeve Brennan John M. Menaghan 81
Religion and Ethics
"Forget about Being Irish": Family, Transgression, and Identity in the Fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan Kathleen McInerney 97
Alice McDermott's Narrators Beatrice Jacobson 116
Oral Traditions
Tess Gallagher: A Network of Sympathies and Distant Connections Mary Ann Ryan 139
"I'm Your Man": Irish American Masculinity in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates Susana Araujo 157
Sexuality
Hardly Sentimental: The "Bad Girls" and Lonely Men of Mary McGarry Morris's Fiction Patricia Gott 171
Blurring Boundaries: Eileen Myles and the Irish American Identity Kathleen Ann Kremins 189
Feminism, Culture, and Critique
The World of Mary Gordon: Writing from the "Other Side" Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw 201
Jean McGarry:Sojourners Between Dreams and Realities Amy Lee 220
Erin McGraw: Expanding the Tradition of Irish American Women Writers Sally Barr Ebest 233
About the Contributors 248
Index 251
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Jeremy Ruiz
reviewed Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers on March 29, 2008
Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers
"A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. The world does not know that a people Is great until that people produces great literature and art. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly Inferior."
I really liked these poems
"Two Points of View
FROM this low-lying valley; Oh, how sweet
And cool and calm and great is life, I ween,
There on yon mountain-throne'that sun-gold crest!
From this uplifted, mighty mountain-seat:
How bright and still and warm and soft and green
Seems yon low lily-vale of peace and rest!"
or even
"The Road to the Bow
EVER and ever anon,
After the black storm, the eternal, beauteous bow!
Brother, to rosy-painted mists that arch beyond,
Blithely I go.
My brows men laureled and my lyre
Twined with immortal ivy for one little rippling song;
My "House of Golden Leaves" they praised and "passionate fire"'
But, Friend, the way is long!
Onward and onward, up! away!
Though Fear flaunt all his banners in my face,
And my feet stumble, lo! the Orphean Day!
Forward by God's grace!
These signs are still before me: "Fear,"
"Danger," "Unprecedented," and I hear black "No"
Still thundering, and "Churl." Good Friend, I rest me here'
Then to the glittering bow!
Loometh and cometh Hate in wrath,
Mailed Wrong, swart Servitude and Shame with bitter rue,
Nathless a Negro poet's feet must tread the path
The winged god knew.
Thus, my true Brother, dream-led, I
Forefend the anathema, following the span.
I hold my head as proudly high
As any man."
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