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Here are poems about ignorance and learning, the good and the bad, men and women, the Dubliners he's known and the country people he grew up with, politicians and killers with causes. Kennelly hears echoes of violence, childhood, love, history, hurt, and laughter, but with recurring hints of some hope in self-renewal -- and with each poem setting off echoes of further echoes. Brendan Kennelly's last collection was The Man Made of Rain (available from Dufour), and was a 1999 Editor's pick by Booklist.

Brendan Kennelly is Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.