@misc{10481/57942,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57942},
abstract = {Pat Boran is one of the most versatile, polyvalent and innovative
voices in contemporary Irish poetry. In spite of his prolific career as a
poet, editor, and fiction writer, and the positive reviews his work has
received over the years (i.e. Smith 2007; Linke 2009; Dempsey 2011;
Cornejo 2016; Kehoe 2018), Boran has received very little critical attention
in Irish Studies. This critical introduction intends to cover
this gap in academia, by offering a more detailed critical appraisal
of a poetic voice largely underrated within Irish literary criticism, as
O’Driscoll (2007, xiv-xv) laments in his introduction to his Selected
Poems. In particular, I will offer a brief critical overview of Boran’s six
collections of poetry, and I will concentrate on several aspects which
seem to distinguish him as a writer: his sense of “detached lyricism”
(that is to say, his intensive biographical but at the same time impersonal
style); the importance that local rootedness exerts in his work;
and his idiosyncratic way of handling themes such as masculinity.},
publisher = {Firenze University Press},
keywords = {Contemporary Irish Poetry},
keywords = {Irish Haikus},
keywords = {Masculinity},
keywords = {Pat Boran},
title = {Detached Lyricism and Universal Rootedness: A Critical Introduction to the Poetry of Pat Boran},
doi = {10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-25529},
author = {Villar Argáiz, Pilar},
}