{"product_id":"the-solace-of-artemis-paula-meehan-9781915629142","title":"The Solace of Artemis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterns and patterning - cellular, celestial, social, political and personal - spin and weave through Paula Meehan's new collection of poems. From the mythic to the mundane, her attention is given over to the examination of interconnected lives - her own, the lives of her family, the human ecology of her native Dublin - and the unfolding of pattern-cycles in the non- human world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeehan's familiar impulse towards blessing and empathy is shadowed in these poems with a clear-sighted understanding that the human perspective is neither privileged nor superior, an awareness that much if not most of existence is indifferent to our all-too-human dramas. Nevertheless, explorations of family, of her own mortality, of the lives of long-dead tenement dwellers, shift and shine in a web of stories that speak to a stubborn human endurance that is sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic - and occasionally transcendent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as new poems, this collection integrates \u003cem\u003eMuseum \u003c\/em\u003e(2019), a sequence commissioned for the Dublin Tenement Museum, and \u003cem\u003eFor the Hungry Ghosts \u003c\/em\u003e(2022), a poem cycle responding to the Hades episode of Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Meehan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915629144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915629142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dedalus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Paula Meehan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44450008924415,"sku":"9781915629142","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe1c918d-2923-4ae3-b7e8-b4087e780dc8.jpg?v=1698502253","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-solace-of-artemis-paula-meehan-9781915629142","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}