The Japanese effect in contemporary Irish poetry

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The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger p. Read more... Abstract: The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the post-Yeatsian legacy of the Irish-Japanese connection through an analysis of work by 12 poets from the early 1960s to 2006. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Irene De Angelis)....Pages 1-13 Petals on Sandymount Strand (Seamus Heaney)....Pages 14-38 Snow Was General All Over Japan (Derek Mahon)....Pages 39-64 Self-contained Images and the Invisible Cities of Tokyo (Ciaran Carson)....Pages 65-80 The Gentle Art of Disappearing (Gabriel Rosenstock, Michael Hartnett, Paul Muldoon)....Pages 81-113 Tu n’as Rien Vu à Hiroshima (Thomas Kinsella, Eugene Watters (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc), Anthony Glavin)....Pages 114-137 Between East and West (Andrew Fitzsimons, Sinéad Morrissey, Joseph Woods)....Pages 138-158 Back Matter ....Pages 159-193