{"product_id":"irish-writers-on-writing-paperback","title":"Irish Writers on Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEavan Boland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEdward Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be a writer in the context of a country's centuries of uncertainty and upheaval? How does an Irish writer define Irish writing? The writers here, who range from early legends like Yeats to modern masters like Roddy Doyle, address these questions through their sources: the land, the Church, the past, and changing politics and literary styles. The book begins with William Yeats and Augusta Gregory's dazzling meditations on the founding of the National Theatre as a venue for a new Irish imagination. Lady Gregory herself is the subject of pithy essays by Kate O'Brien and Colm Toibin. Poets discuss their peers -- Corkery on the Gaelic poets; Frank O'Connor on Corkery; O'Casey on Yeats; Roddy Doyle on Synge. Emma Donoghue illuminates the life of a lesbian Irish writer, while John Banville excoriates Bloomsday and \"the pervasiveness and bathos of the Joyce myth. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Writers on Writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e raises a toast to one of the world's most vital literary traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Chicago and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore. His first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eFor the Sleepwalkers \u003c\/i\u003e (1981), received the Academy of American Poets Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. His second collection, \u003ci\u003eWild Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His recent poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eThe Living Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpecial Orders\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLay Back the Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEarthly Measures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is also the author of the prose books \u003ci\u003eThe Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eResponsive Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, and the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, which poet Garrett Hongo called \"the product of a lifetime of passionate reflection\" and \"a wonderful book for laureate and layman both.\" Most recently, Hirsch published Poet's Choice, which collects two years' worth of his weekly essay letters from the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHirsch's honors include the Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the Rome Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008 he was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and he lives in New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771013202208,"sku":"9781595340320","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8ac2cbd06e39cd3049d02e525f9093f2.webp?v=1780381822","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/irish-writers-on-writing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}