This volume, devoted entirely to Longley's work, brings together a number of experts on Longley and Irish poetry. Through a variety of thematic, contextual and technical approaches, it examines the whole of Longley's career up to and including "The Weather in Japan".
30 years ago, the La Unión mines closed. Fiona describes the area's collectible minerals, the abandoned mines, including historical anecdotes about the people, mining communities, rocks and a way of Spanish life that is now gone.
Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry.
Eugene Platt’s volume of Collected Poems provides the reader with an eloquent distillation of five decades of humor, heartache, history, and love. Whether writing about the simple pleasure of eating a Folly Beach hotdog or the profound permutations of the passage of time, Platt brings his world—and all of our worlds—alive.