Coming Ashore - Couverture souple

O'Grady, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798991525497

Editeur : Arrowsmith Press, 2025

Synopsis

"A true poet" was how Mark Strand described Thomas O'Grady. About the poems in his first book, What Really Matters, Strand wrote: "Their range is vast, their knowledge deep." A quarter of a century later, the observation rings truer than ever. Drawing from the wealth of his first two volumes, and adding a rich bounty of recent work gathered under the title Nuages, O'Grady's New & Selected Poems continues his exploration of place, memory, and the transient and transcendent wonder of the everyday. With a painter's eye and a philosopher's temperament, he conjures a living landscape in which an egret "stands tall and bright as a wand" and the simple yet enduring values of rustic life are on radiant display. At the same time there's room for salubrious wit: "We are mortal. We all must fall . . . // Take heed, dear reader: to each of us / an Achilles heel has been assigned. / But take heart too: I married mine." Meditating on mutability along with our timeless longing for significance, O'Grady's poems celebrate the resilience of the embodied spirit, a space wherein "a scorched wasteland sprouts green shoots of life" and "The turning world will spawn its own rebirth."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas O'Grady was born and grew up on Prince Edward Island. After a long and rich teaching career at University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was Director of Irish Studies from 1984 to 2019, he relocated to northern Indiana where he is currently Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Mary's College. He now divides his time between and among the banks of the mighty St. Joe River in South Bend, a converted rumrunner's bunkhouse in Adamsville, Rhode Island, and the south shore of his beloved PEI.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrowsmith Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798991525497
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne