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Valparaiso
Mary O´malley
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Description for Valparaiso
Paperback. A renowned Irish writer's Odyssey through the sea, the self, and time. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 124.
Valparaiso is a book of poems begun at sea on an Irish research ship on which Mary O'Malley was a resident poet. It is a book of searches and discoveries. As the scientists chart a course dictated by the demands of their own researches, as Ireland is careering from boom into bust, Mary O'Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. What are the effects of such transformations on the imagination? A key poem, 'Out', escapes from the creative lockdown that the Irish boomtime entailed. She returns to an altered place, and is herself changed by an odyssey ... Read more
Valparaiso is a book of poems begun at sea on an Irish research ship on which Mary O'Malley was a resident poet. It is a book of searches and discoveries. As the scientists chart a course dictated by the demands of their own researches, as Ireland is careering from boom into bust, Mary O'Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. What are the effects of such transformations on the imagination? A key poem, 'Out', escapes from the creative lockdown that the Irish boomtime entailed. She returns to an altered place, and is herself changed by an odyssey ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771353
SKU
V9781847771353
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-18
About Mary O´malley
Mary O'Malley was born in Connemara in 1954 and educated at University College, Galway. She travels and lectures widely in Europe and America, has written for both radio and television and is a frequent broadcaster. Her poems have been translated into several languages. She is a member of Aosdana and the Poetry Council for Ireland. She teaches on the MA ... Read more
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