Research Catalog

Title

The soldiers of year II / Medbh McGuckian, with an afterword by Guinn Batten.

Author

McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-

Publication

Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Batten, Guinn.

Description

130 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"While The Soldiers of the Year II is not overtly militant or nationalist, in poem after poem the enforced forms of peace seem only an inversion of those of the prior war."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• English poetry > Irish authors

Contents

• Helen's War -- The Palace of Today -- Speranza -- Life as a Literary Convict -- Revival of Gathered Scents -- Love Affair with Firearms -- Birthday Composition of Horses -- The Chimney Boys -- Filming the Famine -- Turning the Sleep Spindle -- Blood-Words -- The Walking of the Land -- Operation Market Garden -- Ring Size M 1/2 -- Antebellum Backlash -- The Fissure of Sylvius -- The Modern Proserpine -- The Half-Marriage -- To Such a Hermes -- Blue Kasina -- The Language Renters -- Black Magnificat -- Soliloquy to a Cloud -- To Make Two Bridges Necessary -- The Muse Hater's Small Green Passion -- Round Square -- The Soldiers of Year II -- Safe House -- The Starling House -- Lorica -- Mating with the Well -- An Invalid in War -- Thinking of the Whole Island -- Idee Mere -- A Poem for St. Patrick's Day -- Love-Spot -- Nightingale-Nights -- A Religion of Writing -- Clara Theme -- Pincushion with Beaded Cross --
• English as a Foreign Language -- Hessian, Linen, Silk -- Photocall -- The Gregory Quarter-Acre Clause -- Thunder: Perfect Mind -- Gander Month -- Fourteenth Century Hours of the Virgin -- Our Lady's Bedstraw -- Making Your Own Eclipse -- This Ember Week -- The Change Worshipper -- The Fortified Song of Flowers -- To My Disordered Muse -- Three Rings, Six Graves -- At Mullaghmore -- Drawing Ballerinas -- A Ballet Called 'Culloden' -- The Mickey-Mouse Gas Mask -- The Orange Island -- Butcher's Table -- The Frost Fair -- The Colony Room -- Condition Three -- Angelus Bells and the Light Glinting in Her Hair -- The Swan Trap -- A Perfume Called 'My Own' -- A Mantra of Submission -- The Miniver -- The Flora of Mercury -- Moonflowers -- Gaeltacht na Fuiseoige -- Red Trial -- Hazel Lavery, The Green Coat, 1926 -- Black Raven on Cream-Coloured Background -- Monody for Aghas -- Oration.

ISBN

• 1930630085 (paper)
• 1930630093 (cloth)

OCLC

• ocm51310643
• SCSB-4320708

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries