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Daddy, Daddy
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By: Paul Durcan
Publisher: Blackstaff Press
Published: August 1990
Pages: 192
Categories: Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780856404467

Critically acclaimed for his vibrant and eclectic "poetry of the present moment", Paul Durcan is one of the most dramatically intense modern Irish poets. Drawing its strength from its urgent treatment of a wide range of contemporary subject matter, Durcan's poetry is striking for the subtlety and strangeness of its unique imagery.In Daddy, Daddy Durcan pushes out in a radical new direction. Fusing the personal with the political, his angry response to violence and oppression in poems such as "The Murder of Harry Keyes" and "Shanghai, June 1989" is incisive and humane. Here also are love poems of all manner and kind; bizarre meditations on the nature of loneliness; and poems of celebration of writers and artists like Primo Levi, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Cezanne.Durcan also embarks on an exploration of his relationship with his father, creating poetry that is compelling in its probing artistry and painful honesty.

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