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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Apathy Is Out: Selected Poems
Ni ceadmhach neamhshuim: Rogha Danta
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Bloodaxe Books Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6N23ZV9
EAN: 9781780375366
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Zustellung: Fr, 13.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the Irish tradition from the other side. His poems 'seek to answer fundamental questions about the nature of human existence and the place of the individual in a universe without meaning' (Gearóid Denvir). Many of Ó Ríordáin's poems came out of his struggle with the isolation, guilt and loneliness of life in mid-century Catholic Ireland experienced in Cork, the native locale also of the poet Greg Delanty, translator of Apathy Is Out. Ó Ríordáin's poems have been translated by many poets, but until now no single writer has translated the majority of the poems. This collection gives a much more unified sense of Ó Ríordáin's work, catching the poetry's verve, playfulness and range and also 'the music you still hear in Munster,/even in places where it has gone under'. It includes the dark, sorrowful poems Ó Ríordáin has usually represented with in anthologies but also poems of exuberance and celebration, notably 'Tulyar', one of the funniest satirical critiques of the Irish Church's attitude to sex which matches any similar attack by Patrick Kavanagh or Austin Clarke. Seán Ó Ríordáin renewed poetry in Irish by writing out of the modernist sense of alienation, fragmentation and identity, but he also saw beyond Modernism's confines to the connective matrix of our world.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Sean O Riordain
- Greg Delanty
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2021
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 176