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Smashing the Piano

    by John Montague Smashing the Piano

"John Montague has spent a lifetime confronting his own vulnerability, and in doing so, has broadened and strengthened modern Irish poetry. ... As always, Montague sees clearly what has been lost, but also what has been retained and refined over a lifetime. What's remarkable is the new energy which informs and transforms these well-crafted excursions into lost time. As such, this book is more a rejuvenation than a sequel, a revitalizing of a painful past into a permanent and healing present. Smashing the Piano is Montague at the top of his game." Kevin Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement



"Fierce lyric truth,
Sought since youth,
Grace my ageing
As you did my growing
Till time engraves
My final face."



88 pages

2001

$19.95 cloth
ISBN 1-930630-01-8
ISBN13 978-1-930630-01-7

$10.95 paper
ISBN 1-930630-00-X
ISBN13 978-1-930630-00-0

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Wake Forest University • Winston-Salem, North Carolina