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Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Coney Island was written in the conservative post-war 1950s, and the poems “resonate … with a joyful anti-establishment fervor”. [2] In 1967, a presentation of A Coney Island of the Mind was broadcast on NBC Experiment in Television. [3] In 2008, New Directions published a Special 50th Anniversary Edition with a CD of the author reading ...
Heaney published "Requiem for the Croppies", a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798, on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. He read the poem to both Catholic and Protestant audiences in Ireland. He commented, "To read 'Requiem for the Croppies' wasn't to say 'up the IRA' or anything. It was silence-breaking rather than ...
John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016) was an Irish poet. Born in the United States, he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland.He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir.
It was the idea of such an Ireland - happy, vigorous, spiritual - that fired the imagination of our poets; that made successive generations of patriotic men give their lives to win religious and political liberty; and that will urge men in our own and future generations to die, if need be, so that these liberties may be preserved.
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Fan Poems. North Atlantic Books. 1976. ISBN 978-0913028452. When Things Get Tough on Easy Street. Black Sparrow Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0876853498. A Short Guide to the High Plains, For Ed Dorn. Cadmus Editions. November 1980. ISBN 978-0932274175. Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984. Black Sparrow Press. May 1, 1984. ISBN 978-0876856116.