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Paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte provide a springboard for Ciaran O'Driscoll's engagement with the theme of surrealism. He moves from art to surreal aspects of the contemporary world, in particular war and the increasing isolation of the individual in a greed-driven society. These poems are stories, anecdotes and impressions relayed through various voices. Dark absurdities and contradictions, banalities and pretensions are exposed by O'Driscoll's characteristically cutting wit, and here and there a beacon of hard-won hope lights a way through the globalising gloom. "He transforms...details of solitude into a semi-surrealist vision of our world. We need such hard-won high spirits." - John Montague. "Ciaran O'Driscoll is a poet of the first order." - Pearse Hutchinson, "The RTE Guide".
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About the Author:
Ciaran O'Driscoll, a member of Aosdana, was born in Kilkenny in 1943. He has published several collections of poems, the most recent of which is Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus, 2001). He has also published a memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (Liverpool University Press, 2001). He lives in Limerick, Ireland.
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- PublisherPighog Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0954244389
- ISBN 13 9780954244385
- BindingPaperback
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