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To selectively present more than four decades' worth of his poems, Kennely unusually but effectively groups the poems thematically rather than chronologically. So doing, he illuminates connections as he reveals development. ...An altogether rich, wild, demanding and fulfilling collection.""--Booklist, starred review.
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Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most distinguished and best loved poets, as well as a renowned teacher and cultural commentator. Born in 1936 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, he has been Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin for the past 30 years, and retires from teaching in 2004. He has published over 20 books of poetry, including Cromwell, Glimpses, The Man Made of Rain, Martial Art, Poetry My Arse, and The Book of Judas (which topped the Irish bestsellers list). All these are available separately from Bloodaxe, the latter shortened to The Little Book of Judas.
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*Starred Review* To selectively present more than four decades' worth of his poems, Kennelly unusually but effectively groups the poems thematically rather than chronologically. So doing, he illuminates connections as he reveals development. The section on history, for instance, includes sonnets from his controversial Cromwell (1983) side-by-side with short lyrics in the voice of the "Freedom Fighter," who announces that he is "the expression of the people's will. / I am a soldier, not a brute. / I do not bomb or shoot to kill. / I execute." From those poems, Kennelly proceeds to a meditation on economics while stuck in Dublin traffic and a poem in which the great poet Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth I's agent in Ireland, reappears as a rider of the late-twentieth-century Celtic Tiger who is making a killing in furniture sales. The result of such juxtapositions within the section is the reader's growing and ominous sense of how little, in fact, anything changes, in Ireland or anywhere else. Each section reads like a small, freestanding book; happily, one section, set apart from the others, preserves the entire, unaltered text of a previously published book: The Man Made of Rain (1999), Kennelly's most visionary volume. An altogether rich, wild, demanding, and fulfilling collection. Patricia Monaghan
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