Selected Poems: 1978-1994
by Medbh McGuckianpublished
1997
by Wake Forest University Press
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Paperback, 94 pages
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0916390772
(isbn13: 9780916390778)
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Read in April, 2008
Medbh McGuckian and I are probably never going to be bff. Her poems are striking and beautiful, but I've read this whole collection twice now, and I am still not exactly sure what any particular poem is about. I am beginning to think I picked up a volume of cast-offs from her other collections. The poems are more atmospheric, mood pieces about feeling and subconscious rather than actual events or narrative. And they all run together so much so that I can't name a single one. I feel like I n...more
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"there seems only to be this one way of happening,
and a poem to prove it has happened."
-from "Marconi's Cottage"
"...I could escape
from any other prison but my own
unjust pursuit of justice
that turns one sort of poetry into another."
-from "The Albert Chain"
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Read in November, 2007
Her writing gets better as the book (and time) progresses. Complex and beautiful. She is the queen of similes.
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