The Sea of Disappointment: Thomas Kinsella's Pursuit of the Real

Considered to be one of the most inventive of the contemporary Irish poets, Thomas Kinsella is credited with bringing modernism to Irish verse. Despite such early successes, however, Kinsella seems to have faded into the background of the Irish poetic stage. In The Sea of Disappointment Andrew Fitzsimons offers us a chronological journey through the structural and thematic development of Kinsella's poetic writing. This well-researched and comprehensive book draws on illuminating manuscript sources and previously unpublished material as well as on Kinsella's own assistance.

Literature & Fiction

Fitzsimons, Andrew

History & Criticism

University College Dublin Press

<p>Considered to be one of the most inventive of the contemporary Irish poets, Thomas Kinsella is credited with bringing modernism to Irish verse. Despite such early successes, however, Kinsella seems to have faded into the background of the Irish poetic stage. In The Sea of Disappointment Andrew Fitzsimons offers us a chronological journey through the structural and thematic development of Kinsella's poetic writing. This well-researched and comprehensive book draws on illuminating manuscript sources and previously unpublished material as well as on Kinsella's own assistance.</p>

A Fire in the Head

Poetry

Isobar Press

Il Porto Sepolto was written in the trenches of northern Italy while Giuseppe Ungaretti was serving as a private in the Italian army; when the collection was published in Udine in 1916, it changed Italian poetry. Part of its impact was due to the influence of Japanese poetry, which Ungaretti had recently encountered in Italian translation. In his introduction, Irish poet and Tokyo resident Andrew Fitzsimons explores the nature and history of Ungaretti’s engagement with Japanese poetics; the book also includes sixteen vibrant illustrations by another Tokyo resident, the renowned Italian artist Sergio Maria Calatroni. This is the only complete translation into English of the Udine first edition: the poems of a ‘man present at his own / fragility’ that spoke to their moment, and continue to speak one hundred years later.

The Sunken Keep

Ungaretti, Giuseppe

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