The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry [Hardcover]

The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sin?ad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction Petals on Sandymount Strand; S.Heaney Snow Was General All Over Japan; D.Mahon Self-Contained Images and the Invisible Cities of Tokyo; C.Carson The Gentle Art of Disappearing; G.Rosenstock, M.Hartnett & P.Muldoon 'Tu n'as Rien Vu a Hiroshima'; T.Kinsella, E.O.Tuairisc, E.Watters & A.Glavin In Spaces Between East and West; A.Fitzsimons, S.Morrissey & J.Woods Bibliography Index

This is a truly enlightening critical study, which puts flesh on an affiliation between islands at the opposite ends of the immense Eurasian landmass, and the commerce between their poetic traditions... it is various, and engaging, and culturally sophisticated, and scholarship which operates at the level of the word as well as at the level of culture. Australasian Journal of Irish Studies

...commendable in its attention to the fertility of the poetic ground created by Japan's influence on Ireland, and authoritative in its knowledge of both poetic cultures. Iain Twiddy, Journal of Irish Studies

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