Go Giants Poems [Paperback]

One could wear out a thesaurus of superlatives describing his stanzas with their insouciant rhythms and line breaks that appear like a cliff in a cartoon, leaving you momentarily suspended in space with a dizzying view.Displays an almost child-like wonder in the variety and slippage of language, alongside an adult sensibility of its boundless possibilities and dangers&Here are some of Laird's most successful and mature poems.A happy marriage of intellect and economy& Lairds observations in these precision-tooled poems are deft and graceful.Masterful&a work of scholarship and a labor of love.Streetwise, edgy and downright cool&. History, Greek myths, personal gossip, library carrel graffiti and the general ephemera of contemporary urban existence all find their way into [Flynns] elegant assemblages.An inventive new collection by the writer whom Colm T?ib?n called an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry.