Awake in America : on Irish American poetry /
Tobin, Daniel.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
c2011.
"Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- "Double life. Double lives -- Dinner at the Café Marliave -- "Near hag's head" -- Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge -- The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision -- Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy -- Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty -- The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls -- Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath -- "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry -- From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry -- Over there : Irish American poets return -- "A green road in Clare" -- The wake of everything gone -- Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past -- "The line".
American poetry
Irish Americans in literature.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.