Title: The sea of disappointment : Thomas Kinsella's pursuit of the real /
Authors: Fitzsimons, Andrew
Publisher: University College Dublin Press ; U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions],
Year: 2008
Subjects: Kinsella, Thomas Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "Considered to be one of the most inventive of the contemporary Irish poets, Thomas Kinsella is credited with bringing modernism to Irish verse. Kinsella uses sensitive language to deal with primal aspects of the human experience. His early writing, "Poems" (1956) and "Another September" (1958) established him as a new voice in Irish poetry. The peak of Kinsella's success came with the founding of the Peppercanister Press and the publication of "Butcher's Dozen" in 1972. Despite such early successes, however, Kinsella seems to have faded into the background of the Irish poetic stage. In "The Sea of Disappointment", Andrew Fitzsimons offers us a chronological journey through the structural and thematic development of Kinsella's poetic writing."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: the border marches / Of the real -- Alone we make symbols of love -- Futility flogs a tambourine -- I think this is the Sea of Disappointment -- The beginning / must be inward. Turn inward -- And I always remembered / who and what I am.