The Poetry of Derek Mahon

by Mahon, Derek; Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer

• ISBN13: 9780861404254
• ISBN10: 0861404254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

As the first major book-length study of the poetry of Derek Mahon, this volume of fourteen essays represents a long overdue account and assessment of one of the foremost living English-language poets. In considering the central issues of Mahon's poetry--the relation between poetry and politics, the conflicting claims of art and nature, the representation of gender, the importance of place, the poet's response to violence, and his characteristic techniques of displacement, ambiguity, and intertextuality--these essays also represent a variety of critical approaches to the poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	viii
Introduction: The Critical Context.	1	(28)
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
Looking Back from The Yellow Book.	29	(20)
Edna Longley
Heirs and Graces: The Influence and Example of Derek Mahon.	49	(8)
Gerald Dawe
`Solving Ambiguity': The Secular Mysticism of Derek Mahon.	57	(26)
Bruce Stewart
Derek Mahon: History, Mute Phenomena and Beyond.	83	(14)
Jerzy Jarniewicz
`Weird / Haecceity': Place in Derek Mahon's Poetry.	97	(14)
Eamonn Hughes
Rhythm and Revision in Mahon's Poetic Development.	111	(20)
Michael Allen
Derek Mahon and the Visual Arts.	131	(14)
Richard York
`The Importance of Elsewhere': Mahon and Translation.	145	(40)
Hugh Haughton
Derek Mahon: Coming in From the Cold.	185	(20)
Frank Sewell
`The Soul of Silence': Derek Mahon's Masculinities.	205	(26)
John Goodby
`Resident Alien': America in the Poetry of Derek Mahon.	231	(18)
Neil Corcoran
The Twilight of the Cities: Derek Mahon's Dark Cinema.	249	(24)
Stan Smith
Apocalypse Now and Then: The Yellow Book.	273	(24)
Patrick Crotty
Notes	297	(32)
Select Bibliography	329	(6)
Notes on Contributors	335	(4)
Index	339