| The Ghost Orchid Contributor(s): Longley, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0916390721 ISBN-13: 9780916390723 Publisher: Wake Forest University Press OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 95062042 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6.82" W x 8.04" (0.30 lbs) 75 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following the remarkable riches of Gorse Fires, the poems brought together under the title The Ghost Orchid share some of the same concerns, but take many different approaches. Whether in the west of Ireland, Sissinghurst or the stone gardens of Japan; whether confronting the blood of The Iliad or The Odyssey or undergoing "Ovidian metamorphoses;" whether testing poetic form or renewing Ulster Scots dialect, Longley speaks with pared delicacy, passion and vulnerability about love, life and death. A lyric craftsman of genius, Michael Longley has written a book that is fragile and exquisite--like the evanescent ghost orchid itself--yet full of tragic intensity; it is his finest achievement. |