No Can Do

O'Callaghan, Julie

ISBN 10: 1852245115 / ISBN 13: 9781852245115

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2001

Beschreibung

2000. 1st Edition. Paperback. 8vo .Some minor shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and Inscribed by the Author. . . . Signed Copy. Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers KEX0280856

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: No Can Do
• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1852245115
• ISBN-13: 9781852245115
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Julie O’Callaghan’s new collection, No Can Do, ranges in tone from the poignant to the caustic and in subject-matter from the sublime to the hilarious. Games of executive whirlyball, betrayals by grandchildren with ‘buzz-cut hair-dos’, dilemmas about subscriptions to ‘The Potato of the Month Club’ – No Can Do is a collection which revels in investigating exactly ‘How the Joint Works’. The book’s riotous middle is flanked by two contrasting sections, one of which brings a fresh subtlety to Julie O’Callaghan’s celebrated use of monologues as she ventriloquises contemporary concerns through gently satiric and slyly erotic poems set in the court of Heian Japan. No Can Do ends with an affecting sequence of elegiac poems, shocking in its starkness, which will add to her reputation as a highly original and unpredictable poet. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since 1974. Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen Press, 1983), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; What's What (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), a Poetry Book Society Choice; No Can Do (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Magnum Mysterium, is published by Bloodaxe in 2020. Her books of poetry for older children include Taking My Pen for a Walk (Orchard Books, 1988), Two Barks (Bloodaxe Books, 1998) and The Book of Whispers (Faber & Faber, 2006). She has received the Michael Hartnett Award for poetry and is a member of the Irish academy of arts, Aosdána.