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Description for Sudden Thaw
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. 93pp. Keywords: Irish poetry
PEGGY O’BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved to Ireland and studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College, where she taught for the better part of twenty years. Her poems have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Yale Review, The Southwest Review and Poetry Ireland Review. As well as being the editor of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry 1967-2000, she is the author of Writing Lough Derg: from Carleton ... Read more
PEGGY O’BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved to Ireland and studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College, where she taught for the better part of twenty years. Her poems have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Yale Review, The Southwest Review and Poetry Ireland Review. As well as being the editor of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry 1967-2000, she is the author of Writing Lough Derg: from Carleton ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
94
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510413
SKU
KHS1010601
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Reviews for Sudden Thaw
“Puts words on exactly the kind of emotions that censors fear most: subtle, elusive and tinged with erotic intensity.” The Irish Times, ‘Books of the Year’ ‘Peggy O’Brien’s first collection Sudden Thaw opens with a taut sonnet sequence that laments her father, and close with an intrepid examination of what she calls “the gauze of mother-daughter/Love, that knit of wills.” ... Read more