Review
"Kinsella is one of the finest poets of the last century, in Ireland or out of it." --Poetry 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
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A volume of major literary significance by one of Ireland's foremost living poets.
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