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Painting Rain
Paula Meehan
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Description for Painting Rain
paperback. Explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. This title includes poems that sustain belief in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
"Painting Rain" explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology meet. The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief in the power ... Read more
"Painting Rain" explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology meet. The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief in the power ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
100
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
132g
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770011
SKU
V9781847770011
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Paula Meehan
PAULA MEEHAN was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College where she was a Writer Fellow of the English Department, and has taught in the United States. She has written plays and held a creative writing fellow-ship at University College, Dublin; she has worked with inner city communities and conducted workshops in prisons. ... Read more
Reviews for Painting Rain
In Painting Rain Paula Meehan makes music that is a powerful confluence of themes: a field lost to a housing development, a north wind that whines through the dunes, an Irish mother whose daughters 'taught their mother barring orders and legal separation'. Each poem is powerful on its own, demanding and holding the white space of each page, but the ... Read more