COLLECTIBLE, RARE, & LIMITED EDITIONS
Wake Forest University Press is pleased to offer a small selection of collectible, rare, and limited editions.
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Ciaran Carson
The Midnight Court |
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“Carson’s translation of “The Midnight Court” is that rarest of things: a small and utterly enjoyable masterpiece. ... What Carson offers the willing in these 60 pages of poetry with a brief introduction is a rollicking evening of instruction in the pleasures of a long and entertaining poem.”
Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
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Vona Groarke
Flight and Earlier Poems |
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"Groarke's poems often have an air of simplicity, as though they were no more involved than the Irish songs from which many of them are partly descended. But their grounded, private acuteness, their silent insistence on discovering their own methods, make them subtler and more complex than the poems of most of Groarke's more extravagantly ambitious contemporaries." Brian Phillips, Poetry
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Vona Groarke
Juniper Street |
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"Ambitious, tender and lyrically beautiful..." The Irish Times
"Juniper Street brings together dense yet taut poems, grounded in an everyday enriched by an intelligent, idiosyncratic awareness."
(London) Times Literary Supplement
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Thomas Kinsella
Collected Poems
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Wake Forest University Press' Collected Poems makes the case for this singular poet of enormous depths."
Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Thomas Kinsella
Poems 1956-1973 |
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In 1972, the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella decided to found his own imprint, the Peppercanister Press. He wanted to publish work quickly and at regular intervals in order to get a sense of his progress, but felt frustrated with magazine publications, believing that they did not present his work in the best way. As Kinsella himself has remarked: "Peppercanister became an alternative to the publication of poetry in literary journals. I had always found this unsatisfactory, with the poems placed between stories and articles and disappearing with a particular issue."
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Michael Longley
Collected Poems |
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“...a contemporary who should endure over the life of our language.” Donald Hall
“War--what it does to combatants and to their children--becomes a preoccupation throughout Longley’s work. ... Yet marital love and tenderness, domestic calm and pastoral counterpoise also stand among Longley's signature subjects. ... Longley’s genius is pastoral and commemorative. ...” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Michael Longley
Selected Poems 1963-1980
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Michael Longley has received numerous awards, including the American Irish Foundation Award, the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize. He is also the recipient of the prestigious 2001 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
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Medbh McGuckian
The Book of the Angel
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"Like a medieval painting whose archaic symbolism is lost on modern viewers, the beauty of McGuckian's work proves ravishing, uncanny." Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle
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John Montague
Drunken Sailor |
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In Drunken Sailor, Montague explores the political divide in his native County Tyrone, his own rural Catholic upbringing, the changing face of modern Ireland, the landscape of Ireland as historical palimpsest, and his own fascination with the sea.
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John Montague
The Rough Field, fifth edition
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Derek Mahon has called Montague "the best Irish poet of his generation." He has received numerous awards, including the Irish-American Cultural Institute's Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award for 1995, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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John Montague
The Rough Field, fourth edition
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"[Montague] is a world-class poet, one of that extraordinary group — perhaps a dozen? — who illuminate our lives, not just for now, but for as long as words have meaning." Carolyn Kizer
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John Montague
A Slow Dance
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A Slow Dance was the first volume published by Wake Forest University Press, a joint publication with The Dolmen Press and Oxford University Press.
From the 1975 cover: "A dance of death and life is suggested by the developing extremism of John Montague's idiom in this collection, and the title sequence in particular mimes a deep psychic experience of intimacy with the earth, caused, perhaps by the poet's return to this native Ireland after a decade in exile."
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Paul Muldoon
Meeting the British
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American edition, paperback, third printing 1998
64 pages - excellent condition
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Paul Muldoon
Why Brownlee Left
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Why Brownlee Left, first published when Paul Muldoon was 29 years old, helped introduce the young poet to American readers. Many books later, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet is one of the most recognized names in contemporary poetry.
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Richard Murphy
The Price of Stone & Earlier Poems
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First American edition, clothbound with original jacket, colored ensheets
190 pages - new, excellent condition
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Second Voyage
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First edition, paperback, first printing
54 pages - new, pristine condition
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