Awake in America [electronic resource] : on Irish American poetry / Daniel Tobin.

"Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- "Double life. Double lives -- Dinner at the Caf�e Marliave -- "Near hag's head" -- Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge -- The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision -- Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy -- Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty -- The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls -- Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath -- "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry -- From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry -- Over there : Irish American poets return -- "A green road in Clare" -- The wake of everything gone -- Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past -- "The line".

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