Familiar Strangers : New and Selected Poems, 1960-2004

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ISBN: 9781852246624 | 1852246626
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Copyright: 10/15/2004

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"To selectively present more than four decades' worth of his poems, Kennelly unusually but effectively groups the poems thematically rather than chronologically. So doing, he illuminates connections as he reveals development. ...An altogether rich, w

A giving	p. 23
Yes	p. 24
The year	p. 25
The true thing	p. 25
Measures	p. 26
Let it go	p. 27
Conference	p. 28
A host of ghosts	p. 31
Whatever	p. 31
A language	p. 32
Someone, somewhere	p. 32
Proof	p. 33
Leaving	p. 33
The prodigal son	p. 34
To learn	p. 37
The stick	p. 37
Ozzie	p. 38
Prades	p. 39
Flushed	p. 39
Skool	p. 39
Small black stars	p. 40
Catechism	p. 40
My mind of questions	p. 41
After school	p. 44
A return	p. 44
The brightest of all	p. 45
The smell	p. 46
Thorn	p. 47
Horsechestnuts	p. 48
Lost	p. 48
The horse's head	p. 49
The hill of fire	p. 51
The fall	p. 52
The stones	p. 52
Nails	p. 54
Innocent	p. 54
The visitor	p. 55
Tasty	p. 57
The big words	p. 57
Poem from a three year old	p. 59
Nineteen forty-two	p. 60
Children's hospital	p. 60
The learning of pity	p. 61
Girl on a tightrope	p. 61
Rebuke	p. 64
Play	p. 64
The kiss	p. 65
A leather apron	p. 66
Ten bob	p. 66
The stammer	p. 67
The learning	p. 69
John Keane's field	p. 70
God's eye	p. 71
Ella Cantillon	p. 75
Litter	p. 75
A mad woman	p. 76
Union	p. 76
A Kerry Christmas	p. 77
A cry for Art O'Leary	p. 77
I met a woman	p. 83
Acteon	p. 83
The hope of wings	p. 84
Girl in a rope	p. 85
At the party	p. 85
A great day	p. 86
Moloney discovers the winter	p. 87
The dose	p. 90
Fragments	p. 91
Steps	p. 91
It was indeed love	p. 92
Santorini	p. 92
The exhibition	p. 93
Love cry	p. 94
Lightness	p. 95
Love-child	p. 95
Sister	p. 96
Miss Anne	p. 96
Smell	p. 97
Eyes	p. 97
A girl	p. 98
Eily Kilbride	p. 108
Rebecca Hill	p. 108
Feed the children	p. 109
Citizens of the night	p. 109
Baby	p. 110
A drowned girl	p. 111
Clean	p. 112
The gift returned	p. 112
There are women (after Mandelstam)	p. 114
We are living	p. 114
Muses	p. 115
May the silence break	p. 116
A kind of trust	p. 117
A passionate and gentle voice	p. 118
Separation	p. 119
Willow	p. 120
Too near	p. 122
A viable odyssey	p. 123
Bridge	p. 124
To you	p. 124
Tonight you cry	p. 125
The furies	p. 127
Warning	p. 127
The moment of letlive	p. 128
Beyond knowledge	p. 129
Mary Magdalene (after Pasternak)	p. 131
She	p. 133
Wish	p. 133
Knives	p. 134
Assassin	p. 134
Phone call	p. 135
Her spirit	p. 136
Keep in touch	p. 136
Birth	p. 137
The burning of her hair	p. 138
A holy war	p. 140
Sacrifice	p. 140
The fire is crying	p. 141
A half-finished garden	p. 142
Her face	p. 142
The hag of Beare	p. 143
She sees her own distance	p. 145
A restoration	p. 143
More dust	p. 146
Wings	p. 146
The habit of redemption	p. 148
Gestures	p. 148
Westland row	p. 148
The Celtic twilight	p. 149
The girl next door	p. 149
Maggie Hannifin's way for women	p. 150
Irish proverb	p. 150
Woman in a doorway	p. 150
Padraig O Conaire's daughter visits Galway on her honeymoon	p. 151
The scarf	p. 151
Speculations	p. 152
Portrait	p. 152
Nora O'Donnell	p. 153
The work was coming out right	p. 153
Last kicks	p. 154
Her laugh	p. 155
The good	p. 155
Therese	p. 156
Saint Brigid's prayer	p. 157
To Marina Tsvetaeva (after Mandelstam)	p. 157
Is it possible I shall see you? (after Mandelstam)	p. 158
The man made of rain	p. 159
No image fits	p. 228
The third force	p. 229
Correspondence	p. 230
Consequences	p. 230
A teeny bit	p. 231
Saint Augustine on God	p. 231
The sin	p. 233
Adam	p. 236
I saw a beautiful man	p. 236
Saint Augustine's toe	p. 237
A man of faith	p. 237
Who killed the man	p. 238
Baile bocht	p. 239
Shy	p. 240
Needles	p. 240
The grip	p. 242
Cock	p. 242
The pig-killer	p. 243
The pig	p. 243
Time for the knife	p. 246
The tippler	p. 247
Work	p. 247
Man making fire	p. 248
The king	p. 249
The thatcher	p. 249
The swimmer	p. 250
A man undeceived	p. 251
The runner	p. 251
All the time in the world	p. 252
That look	p. 253
A man in smoke remembered	p. 253
A man, but rarely mentioned	p. 254
Night drive	p. 255
Oliver to his brother	p. 257
I wonder now what distance	p. 257
Always	p. 258
The love of God	p. 259
Missing	p. 261
A glimpse of starlings	p. 261
Blood	p. 262
A winter rose	p. 263
The names of the dead are lightning	p. 264
I see you dancing, father	p. 264
Oliver to his son	p. 265
Where women pray and judge	p. 266
Oliver to his daughter	p. 266
Blood	p. 266
James Joyce's death-mask	p. 270
The dinner	p. 271
The blind man	p. 273
I see	p. 274
Moloney sees through a blind eye	p. 275
Kind eyes	p. 277
An OK guy	p. 278
According to The moderate intelligencer	p. 278
The house I built	p. 279
Courage	p. 279
The loud men	p. 281
Time for breaking	p. 282
The second tree	p. 283
A black and tan	p. 284
The grudge	p. 286
What use?	p. 288
Old soldier	p. 288
Service	p. 289
Ask the children	p. 289
Tail-end Charlie	p. 290
The story	p. 291
The cries repeat themselves	p. 292
Roger Boyle	p. 292
But it did (a drama)	p. 294
A bottle	p. 294
Columkille the writer	p. 295
What else?	p. 295
Sebastian	p. 296
Light dying	p. 296
Oliver to a friend	p. 298
A man I knew	p. 298
Raglan lane	p. 299
A real presence	p. 300
Late Yeats	p. 301
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