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Author:Ciaran Carson
Belfast Confetti
Belfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson's third book of poetry, weaves together in a carefully sequenced volume prose pieces, long poems, lyrics, and haiku. His subjects include the permeable boundaries of Belfast neighborhoods, of memory, of public and private fear, and, indeed, of the forms of...- $11.95
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Collected Poems Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson's Collected Poems gathers work from eight collections. From the formal and thematic traditions of his earlierst work, The New Estate (1976), the energetic long lines of The Irish for No (1987) and Belfast Confetti (1989), to the formal adroitness of Opera Et...- $19.95
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Author:Ciaran Carson
From There to Here: Selected Poems and Translations
Ciaran Carson's shape-changing genius shines across the volumes included in From There to Here: Selected Poems and Translations. The explosive long lines of his earliest work move to the formal skill and inventive imagination of the middle period, while the concentrated stanzas and intellectual...- $18.95
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In the Light of
Ciaran Carson has a distinguished history of translation from the Italian (The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, 2002), the Irish (The Midnight Court, 2005; and The T疂n, 2007) as well as from the French (The Alexandrine Plan, 1998). He states in his "Author's Note" that...- $14.95
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Author:Ciaran Carson
Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's...- $19.00
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Opera Et Cetera
Torqueing and tuning his long lines to the demands of rhyme, Carson skitters from Northern Ireland to Romania to the "twin volcanoes--Balalaika, Karaoke," from the Irish language to the Latin roots of English. In the opening series of alphabet poems, Carson turns the synchronic...- $9.95
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Selected Poems Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson's Selected Poems represents--while yet in full current--the early prodigious poetic creativity of one of Ireland's great writers. This selection gathers poems from The New Estate (1976), The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1989), First Language (1993), Opera Et Cetera (1996), The...- $12.95
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Still Life
In Still Life, Ciaran Carson guides us through centuries of art and around the Belfast Waterworks where he walks with his wife, Deirdre; into the chemo ward; into memory and the allusive quicksilver of his mind, always bidding us to look carefully at the...- $13.95
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Author:Ciaran Carson
The Midnight Court
Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 1745-1805), The Midnight Court is here translated by one of Ireland's distinguished contemporary poets, Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century...- $12.95
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Author:Ciaran Carson
The Tain
'[A] brilliant and altogether engaging new translation' (Los Angeles Times) of the greatest epic in Irish literature The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic, on par with Beowulf and The Aeneid. The story of...- $17.00
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