num_pages: 80
description: The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet’s acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world’s things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames. Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, 2001; Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, 2001; Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2000.
language: English
title: The Weather in Japan
titlecomplete: The Weather in Japan
genres: Ireland, Poetry
ratings_count: 44
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Hawthornden Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
publisher: Wake Forest University Press