The Hudson Letter

by Derek Mahon

Book Overview

Mahon writes from lower Manhattan, addressing, in ramble or vigil, his absent lover, his children in London, Auden, Yeats s father, and other cosmic vagrants, clutching our bits and pieces, arrogant in dereliction. In the eighteen sections of The Hudson Letter, the gabble of a dockside bar, voices of a recycled Sappho and of an Irish immigrant girl reassuring her mother in Inishannon, and the midwinter, all-night sounds of the City intersperse with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390705
• ISBN13: 9780916390709
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"