by James McAuley
University of Arkansas Press, 1989
Cloth: 978-1-55728-072-5 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-108-7 | Paper: 978-1-55728-073-2
Library of Congress Classification PR6025.A1612C6 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 821.914

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Exile—with its sense of suspended or impending motion, of change, loss, acceptance—gives James J. McAuley’s poems their need to be, their means of surviving the exigencies of the displaced spirit. Ancestors on both sides of his family were bards in Celtic Ireland. Although a naturalized United States citizen, McAuley has maintained his connections with his native land: the Irish times listed him among one hundred “significant Irish writers.” Although the poet writes of the familial and the domestic, he is writing at the same time of journeys out and back, of losses and recoveries. McAuley is as much at ease with the solemnity of elegy as with the invective of political satire or the sensual metaphysics of the love-poem.

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