© Via Del Vento Edizioni, 2000
Generous selections from Medbh McGuckian’s first five books serve as an introduction to this gloriously gifted — and pioneering — poet, as a stock-taking moment to reconsider her luxuriant constructions, and as a welcome occasion to learn further how to receive the signals of her opulent imagination. The sensual, rhapsodic implications of her early work and the engagement of more recent poems with the politics of her native province represent a convincing vision.
Selected Poems marries intellectual and emotional courage with vital language, startling but appropriate image, and beguiling art.
Gallery Press 1997
Translated into: Italian
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