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DANA GIOIA, past Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts -

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HELEN VENDLER, Harvard University

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Michael Longley's
A Hundred Doors has received reviews in the Washington Post, and was chosen as a book of the year in the Boston Globe!

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Recent Books:

The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems
edited by Terence Brown & Michael Longley
(October)
The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry (October)

Upcoming Books this Spring:

Speech Lessons: John Montague

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass: Harry Clifton

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Poem of the Month

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass

1923

The life of the country
Hardened against you
Like frost, and a new front

Opened— brother against brother,
Choice against choice,
Disputing the high ground. Your eyes,

Blindfolded, beheld the ideal State
As the real one steadied itself
To annihilate you.

How to survive it, the force of exclusion,
The freezing out of the soul
At the site of its own execution?

In the high cold, in the light snow
Of the Dublin mountains, a fox
Made its own tracks

And vanished….
                           A single shot—
A hundred years of travelling echoes,
Family history, unmarked plots.

from "The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass",
Harry Clifton, to be published spring 2012


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