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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Use in library | PR6063.O5 Z486 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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
- Poets, Irish
- United States
- Montague, John
- 1900-1999
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiography
- Ireland > Cork
- France > Paris
- Intellectual life
- Friendship
- Poets, Irish > 20th century > Biography
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Cork (Ireland) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Montague, John > Friends and associates
- 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