Poets and Partitions revitalizes the discussion of Troubles poetry, digging deeply into the poetry of this divergent school, from Hewitt to Heaney, Mahon to McGuckian, Rodgers to Muldoon and Carson. Whether discussing violence, transcendence, or emotional disclosure, Curley illuminates these poets' projects. This book is also a serious study of the dynamics of public poetry - a form stretched between ... Read morethe demands of self and state, expression and communal identity. Curley brings a scholar's breadth of understanding and a poet's awareness of linguistic tack to this study of Ireland's most influential poetic school. Clearly, history has a place in poetry, and public poetry has received an elegant new appraisal.
Joseph Lennon, Villanova University, author, Irish Orientalism Show Less