{"product_id":"dear-life-paperback","title":"Dear Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Seamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dennis O'Driscoll's long devotion to the stripped-down idiom of Eastern European poets such as Miroslav Holub and Wislawa Szymborska and an American like Marianne Moore encouraged a style that opted for the plain before the elevated, the colloquial before the eloquent. Which is not to say that his work lacked seriousness: in its total alertness to the present moment, the cultural, social and economic life of contemporary Ireland, it was a unique phenomenon. If it was satirical - as it often is in \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e - it was not contemptuous. It registered the great spiritual changes that occurred during his lifetime, as the country moved from being a rural, religious, mainly agricultural place to an urban, suburban, secular destination for multinationals.\"--Seamus Heaney, from the Introduction\u003cp\u003e\"Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work. . . . Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[One] of the most interesting poets now writing in English. O'Driscoll's poetry has the rare virtue of making us feel that most other poets are forcing things a little, striving for effect. He writes directly, naturally, about the emotions that are closest to us and, for that very reason, go unobserved: how we actually feel about work and possessions and aging.\"--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrish poet Dennis O'Driscoll's new poems engage with contemporary issues--the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming--as well as the timeless topics of working and aging, loving and dying, God and Mammon. His poems give voice to twenty-first century Western attitudes towards religion, while the ambitious title-sequence attempts a rigorous exploration of the purpose of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Valentine\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack in hospital on this fateful date, but to no complications for once, I am discharged in good time to lighta candle on the kitchen table, decantyour Valentine's glass of sparkling wine, sear the steak, sautéeacute; the onions, bakepotatoes till their paunchy waistcoats loosen, launch the gravy boat on its salt voyage, let mushrooms set sail on melting butter . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e (1954-2012) died suddenly on Christmas Eve, 2012. He was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as a book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eStepping Stones\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e famously--and deservedly--called O'Driscoll \"one of the best-read men in the Western world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis O'Driscoll: Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012), a former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review, \u003c\/i\u003e was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eStepping Stones.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e famously (and deservedly) called O'Driscoll \"one of the best-read men in the Western world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50338296463597,"sku":"9781556594076","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/3Sz-MgQgy59781556594076.webp?v=1785078602","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/dear-life-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}