| The Twelfth of Never Contributor(s): Carson, Ciaran (Author) |
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ISBN: 0916390845 ISBN-13: 9780916390846 Publisher: Wake Forest University Press OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: This wildly imaginative commentary on human folly floats on or submerges in the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, the land of the green rose, poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballad -- all realms of or tickets to Utopia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 98061112 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.51" W x 8.52" (0.30 lbs) 91 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, "the land of the green rose," poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12th--all realms of or tickets to Utopia. The combination of pleasant, even rollicking, conveyance--iambs and anapests, disguised rhymes, lilting lines--and sinister endings evokes certain kinds of fairy stories, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann's. |