Publisher:
Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester
;
[ProQuest], [Ann Arbor, Michigan]
Combining precise attention to detail with linguistic virtuosity and a dry humor, promising young Irish poet Caoilinn Hughes traces the parallels between scientific exploration and poetic venturing in this strong debut collection. Several of the...
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Combining precise attention to detail with linguistic virtuosity and a dry humor, promising young Irish poet Caoilinn Hughes traces the parallels between scientific exploration and poetic venturing in this strong debut collection. Several of the poems, which concern themselves with the language and processes of science, were award winners before being included in this collection.
Combining precise attention to detail with linguistic virtuosity and a dry humor, promising young Irish poet Caoilinn Hughes traces the parallels between scientific exploration and poetic venturing in this strong debut collection. Several of the...
more
Combining precise attention to detail with linguistic virtuosity and a dry humor, promising young Irish poet Caoilinn Hughes traces the parallels between scientific exploration and poetic venturing in this strong debut collection. Several of the poems, which concern themselves with the language and processes of science, were award winners before being included in this collection. Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Avalanche -- Gathering Evidence -- The Transit of Venus -- Pacific Rim -- The Moon Should Be Turned -- King of the Castle -- This Is What Makes It Go Bang -- Catechism -- Rational Dress -- On the Content of Brackets -- Looting Roses -- Vagabond Monologue -- Snake Creeps through the Grass -- The Shell Man -- Somatic Cells -- Impressions of Ireland -- To the Elements -- We Are Experiencing Delay -- Two Roundelets -- Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest -- Lucky -- Marbles -- Communion Afternoon -- Cynophobia -- Playing House -- Dublin Can Be Heaven -- Hames of a Haiku -- Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism -- Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist -- Estuary -- Bruisewort -- Bolivian Children -- A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia -- Altitude -- God Always Geometrises -- Harmony of the Spheres -- Airbowing in Second Violins -- Watershed -- Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll? -- Legacy.
