{"product_id":"awake-in-america-on-irish-american-poetry-9780268042370","title":"Awake in America: On Irish American Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Tobin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the first comprehensive study of Irish American poetry ever published, \u003ci\u003eAwake in America\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to establish a conversation between Irish and Irish American literature that challenges many of the long-accepted boundaries between the two. In this distinctive book, Daniel Tobin presents a series of essays that combine poetry and literary criticism to form what he calls the poet's essay. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first section of \u003ci\u003eAwake in America\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders the dual tradition of Irish poetry through discussions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets as well as contemporary writers. The second section features a series of shorter chapters on poets in America. The third section explores the theme of \"Crossings\" and includes a consideration of Irish American and African American literature. The fourth, and final, section is comprised of a compositional memoir in which Tobin explores the role of hidden history in his own long poem, \"The Narrows.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAwake in America\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative reading of literary tradition in light of the routes by which tradition evolves as well as the roots from which tradition originates. It will be welcomed by poetry aficionados and by all scholars and readers of Irish and Irish American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47599625830551,"sku":"9780268042370","price":4508.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780268042370.webp?v=1775005095","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/awake-in-america-on-irish-american-poetry-9780268042370","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}