Collected Poems: 1956-2001 [Paperback]

Thomas Kinsella (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2006

A volume of major literary significance by one of Ireland's foremost living poets.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'TOGETHER, both as one, / We lifted our dripping blades in the dying light ...' the haunting, Dantean river journey of Thomas Kinsella's 'Downstream' makes other poems inspired by the brooding Tuscan seem like homework. And when the poem's imagery of a skiff moving under starry skies effortlessly shifts to stark visions of a concentration camp's 'tall chimneys flickering,' one wonders why this Irish poet isn't as revered as Seamus Heaney. Wake Forest University Press' Collected Poems makes the case for this singular poet of enormous depths. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Kinsella is one of the finest poets of the last century, in Ireland or out of it." --Poetry Review

About the Author

Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. He attended University College, Dublin, entering the Civil Service in 1946. He has taught in the United States and established and administered the Irish Tradition study programme in Dublin, retiring in 1992. He was a director of the Dolmen Press and Cuala Press, Dublin, and in 1972 established Peppercanister Press. He is best known as a major poet (published by Dolmen, Peppercanister and Oxford University Press), a translator (of The Tain and Poems of the Dispossessed) and a radical anthologist (of the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse). His most recent book of poems, From Centre City, was published in 1994 by Oxford. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 379 pages
• Publisher: Wake Forest Univ Pr (September 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930630271
• ISBN-13: 978-1930630277
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,951,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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