The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the PresentThe Book of Irish American Poetry draws together the best and the most representative poetry by Irish Americans and about Irish America that has been written over the past three hundred years. Daniel Tobin begins with poetry of the “populist period” (poets such as John Boyle O’Reilly), and moves to the work of Irish Americans who have made an indelible imprint on American poetry: Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, John Berryman, Thomas McGrath, Robert Creeley, Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, Galway Kinnell, and Alan Dugan, among others. The anthology concludes with distinctive poems by contemporary Irish Americans whose work is likely to stand the test of times, such as Tess Gallagher, Brendan Galvin, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. “...a prodigious and remarkable work of literary scholarship.” --Eamonn Wall |
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