{"product_id":"dear-life-paperback","title":"Dear Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Seamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDennis O'Driscoll's long devotion to the stripped-down idiom of Eastern European poets such as Miroslav Holub and Wislawa Szymborska and an American like Marianne Moore encouraged a style that opted for the plain before the elevated, the colloquial before the eloquent. Which is not to say that his work lacked seriousness: in its total alertness to the present moment, the cultural, social and economic life of contemporary Ireland, it was a unique phenomenon. If it was satirical - as it often is in \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e - it was not contemptuous. It registered the great spiritual changes that occurred during his lifetime, as the country moved from being a rural, religious, mainly agricultural place to an urban, suburban, secular destination for multinationals.--Seamus Heaney, from the Introduction\u003cp\u003eDennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work. . . . Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics.--\u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One] of the most interesting poets now writing in English. O'Driscoll's poetry has the rare virtue of making us feel that most other poets are forcing things a little, striving for effect. He writes directly, naturally, about the emotions that are closest to us and, for that very reason, go unobserved: how we actually feel about work and possessions and aging.--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrish poet Dennis O'Driscoll's new poems engage with contemporary issues--the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming--as well as the timeless topics of working and aging, loving and dying, God and Mammon. His poems give voice to twenty-first century Western attitudes towards religion, while the ambitious title-sequence attempts a rigorous exploration of the purpose of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Valentine: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack in hospital on this fateful date, but to no complications for once, I am discharged in good time to lighta candle on the kitchen table, decantyour Valentine's glass of sparkling wine, sear the steak, saut  the onions, bakepotatoes till their paunchy waistcoats loosen, launch the gravy boat on its salt voyage, let mushrooms set sail on melting butter . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e (1954-2012) died suddenly on Christmas Eve, 2012. He was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as a book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eStepping Stones\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e famously--and deservedly--called O'Driscoll one of the best-read men in the Western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis O'Driscoll: Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012), a former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review, \u003c\/i\u003e was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eStepping Stones.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e famously (and deservedly) called O'Driscoll \"one of the best-read men in the Western world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 103\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771609514272,"sku":"9781556594076","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c5473bf44aeaaf13bd056064dbd07ed1.webp?v=1780389462","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dear-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}