The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems

by Terence Brown and Brendan Kennelly

The Essential Brendan Kennelly is at turns a lush and jubilant, wintry and harsh collection of poems. It provides a convincing outline of the poet s growth from an early lyric genius who was sensitive to discordance into the epic poet who, as the editors observe, combined the note of awe-struck lyricism with notes of disgust, fierce satire, sardonic bitterness and self-laceration. As Kennelly himself explains in The Book of Judas, The best way to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930630573
• ISBN13: 9781930630574
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"