Research Catalog

Title

Trespasser : poems / by R.T. Smith.

Author

Smith, R. T.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

64 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• With craggy Celtic metaphysics and perfect linguistic pitch, R. T. Smith evokes the landscape, culture, and history of Ireland and the New World through the eyes and ears of an outsider. Words matter to Smith, and the language of these poems is knotty and precise, blazing into moments of recognition with the elliptical testimony and spare light of every day objects.
• The collection arcs with rigorous unity of vision from the secular to the heights of spiritual rapture, until the demarcation between world and spirit finally begins to blur. Surely, this book suggests, between world and spirit there is, for those who can see, no demarcation at all. Trespasser is a dazzling, passionate collection, certain to delight and move any reader who has an ear for the music of language played by a virtuoso.

Contents

Stolen Measures -- Jumble Sale -- Waterford -- Mushrooms -- Lucia -- The Magdalene -- Tourist -- Saint Patrick's -- Breves from The Book of Kells -- Before the Breakup -- Leabai -- Passage to Kilronin -- Wrenboys -- End of Summer, City of the Tribes -- Siuil a Run -- Poteen -- Meithiel -- Black Shawl -- Perfect -- Angels -- Conviction -- The Uses of Enchantment -- Teresa -- Halcion -- Last Things -- Sect -- The Convert -- Gristle and Heron -- Saint Gristle Nocturne -- Gristlewolf -- Gristle Trout -- Gristle Teasel, Gristle Bear -- Gristle Stoat -- Orchard -- Gristle and Sheela-na-Gig -- The Hard Word -- Gristle Epitaph.

ISBN

• 0807120529 (c : alk. paper)
• 0807120537 (p : alk. paper)

LCCN

96002248

OCLC

• 34149784
• ocm34149784

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries