| Details | | Publication Date: | 2001-01-01 |
Publisher's Note
Durcan brings his tender lyricism and incisive wit to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. The first section describes a near-death experience in Australia, which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within an historical and sacramental context a very personal event. And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own twentieth-century romance, replete with ecstasies and inevitable agonies, beauty and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement. Over the last 30 years, Paul Durcan has become one of the most highly regarded and popular poets in contemporary Ireland, celebrated both in his home country and internationally. Cries of an Irish Caveman is his most entertaining and original collection yet.
Industry Reviews
"His raw emotion and psychological turmoil - exalted sometimes into shamelessly flowery language - aren't for everyone, but Durcan's devices mostly escape the mundane imagery that tends to blight contemporary poetry. And many of his poems are brilliantly simple, such as the whimsical 'The Bunnacurry Scurry,' where he marks the eras of his life by the social dances of his past."
Philadelphia Inquirer (03/26/2002)
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