Awake in America
Subtitle: on Irish American poetry
By: Daniel Tobin
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780268042370
Subjects: Irish Americans in literature; History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; American poetry; Irish American authors
Other titles: Irish American poetry
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: "Double life. Double lives; title: Dinner at the Café Marliave; title: "Near hag's head"; title: Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge; title: The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens; title: Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision; title: Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy; title: Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty; title: The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls; title: Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath; title: "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry; title: From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry; title: Over there : Irish American poets return; title: "A green road in Clare"; title: The wake of everything gone; title: Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past; title: "The line".