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The pear is ripe : a memoir

Title
The pear is ripe : a memoir / John Montague.
Author
Montague, John.
Publication
Dublin : Liberties Press ; Chester Springs, Pa. : Distributed in the U.S. by Dufour Editions, 2007.

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Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Poetry NjP
Description
240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"In The Pear Is Ripe, poet John Montague recounts the time he spent on the West Coast of the United States, where he was present as the flower-power movement burgeoned; in France, where he witnessed the evenements of May '68 at first hand; and in Cork, where he continued to pursue his career as a poet and academic."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • is no. 150 of a signed limited edition of two hundred copies, with poem printed on free front endpaper; in slipcase.
Source (note)
  • gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Richard M. Ludwig.
Contents
Paradise revisited, or, To California then I came -- Paris interlude -- Dublin revisited -- Claddagh goes north, or, The northern muse -- The planter and the Gael, or, An Ulster tandem -- 'Shine, perishing Republic' : an elegy for 1960s America -- The pear is ripe, or, Shall we overcome? -- Patriotic suite -- Starting again, or, What are you doing here? -- The private life -- Old moulds -- 'Dr Montague' -- Precious little.
ISBN
  • 9781905483259
  • 1905483252
LCCN
2007531304
OCLC
  • ocn159695921
  • 159695921
  • SCSB-14060236
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library