The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810150328 ISBN 13: 9780810150324

Publisher: TriQuarterly, 1994

Synopsis

This anthology of poems presents, for the first time in the U.S., the most important English-language Welsh poets of the 1980s and 1990s, and works illuminating the complexity, constant flux, and political implications of the poet's sense of inherited culture. A collection of fascinating interviews with the poets rounds out the exploration of the Welsh-English cultural divide.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This anthology of poems and interviews is a double revelation for U.S. readers, presenting for the first time in this country the important English-language Welsh poets of the 1980s and 1990s, and illuminating the complexity, constant flux, and political implications of the poet's sense of inherited culture.

About the Author

David Lloyd is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: TriQuarterly
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810150328
• ISBN 13: 9780810150324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Lloyd David