From: gregcarr@iol.ie (Gregory Carr)
Subject: Poetry My Arse and other Books of Poetry by Brendan Kennelly  -  kbpmy.txt [1/1]  -  readirel.txt [1/1]
Date: 1995/10/05
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Books by Brendan Kennelly

Poetry My Arse - In this new epic poem, Kennelly plays devil's 
advocate, exploring the 'poetryworlds' of and Ace de Horner, who is 
slowly going blind.  Helped by his uglyjoe dog, Kanooce, and by a 
woman, Janey Mary, Ace thinks he is seeing things in himself a little 
more clearly, connecting the fragments of his life a little more 
convincingly.  Not so!  As the poem digs into Ace's vanity, visions, 
fantasies, failures, dedication and absurdity, the reader becomes party 
to his painful efforts to relate to poetry, to his jocular distortions of 
language and to his pained perspective on the world.

Poetry My Arse is also a poem about Kennelly's Dublin, a city of 
parody and caricature, an attractive, scruffy centre of scandal and 
gossip where slagging, piss-taking and ridicule keep boredom and the 
terrors of self-knowledge at bay.

Poetry My Arse is an anatomy of mockery, at once satire and elegy, 
epic and lyric, narrative and impressionistic.

When anyone snaps 'Poetry My Arse!' they may not be dismissing 
poetry, but they are certainly pouring scorn on the intellectual elitism 
often associated with poetry, or on the posturing arrogance of some 
poets, or on the ways in which poetry is talked about or "taught".  
Poetry My Arse is written in that spirit of scorn, trading self-glory for 
self-abuse.

(Paperback:  IR 9.95 - UK 9.95 - US 15.95apx)
(Hardback:  IR25.00 - UK25.00 - US40.00apx)


The Book of Judas

In this book, an epic poem in 12 parts, Kennelly lets Judas, the eternal 
traitor and scapegoat, who is not merely lost but irredeemable, speak, 
dream and murmur in all his voices - of past and present, history and 
myth, good and evil, men, women and children, and money - until we 
realise that the dammed outcast, the unspeakable perpetrator of the 
apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own 
world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours.

(Paperback: IR9.95 - UK9.95 - US 15.95apx)
(Hardback: IR25.00 - UK 25.00 - US 40.00apx)

Breathing Spaces

This book gives a breathing space for a number of early poems 
including the poem-sequences Love Cry, Islandman and A Small Light 
as well as poems from Shelley in Dublin and a full version of A Girl 
consisting of 22 songs, several previously unpublished.  Kennelly has 
written new introductions for each of these sequences as well as a 
provocative new essay to preface the collection.

(Paperback: IR8.95 - UK8.95 - US14.50apx)
(Hardback: IR14.95 - UK14.95 - US23.95apx)

A Time For Voices: Selected Poems 1960-1990

(Paperback: IR8.95 - UK8.95 - US 14.50apx)
(Hardback: IR14.95 - UK14.95 - US23.95apx)

Cromwell: An Epic Poem

(Paperback: IR8.95 - UK8.95 - US14.50apx)

Medea by Euripides: a New Translation

(Paperback: IR5.95 - UK5.95 - US9.50apx)
(Hardback: IR12.95 - UK12.95 - US20.75apx)

The Trojan Women by Euripides: a New Translation

(Paperback: IR6.95 - UK6.95 - US11.00apx)


These books, as well as any Irish-Interest Book, may be ordered from 
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IRELAND

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