Name: Feel Free: Poems
ISBN: 9781324002741

Feel Free: Poems

Nick Laird

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Feel Free, the fourth collection from acclaimed poet Nick Laird, effortlessly marries the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice, and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention, and wit, Laird explores the patterns of freedom and constraint--the family, the impress of history, the body itself--and how we might transcend them. Always daring, always renewing, Feel Free is Laird's most remarkable work to date.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Jul 2nd, 2019
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.20lb
EAN: 9781324002741
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Subjects & Themes - General

About the Author

Laird, Nick: - Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic, and the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. His many honors include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The poem "Up Late" was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Laird taught for ten years in New York City and currently lives in London and Ireland.

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“New York’s Irish Arts Center upgrades to a flagship hub...a home as big as its aspirations”—The New York Times #newIAC

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Praise for this book

Reading Feel Free, I feel myself in the presence of a true master, a poet courageous and capable enough to sing loss and shame, humor and praise as if it is all part of the very same song.--Tracy K. Smith

[Feel Free] shows this exceptionally gifted poet extending what is by now a real range.--Paul Muldoon "Times Literary Supplement"

Nick Laird's acute eye and shades of meaning make these poems a gift to read.-- "Guardian"

The highlights of the book are love poems and city poems for the Information Age: the poet's situations and relationships--as a father, a son, a husband--are sized up and filtered through different kinds of brilliantly manipulated language...Feel Free [is] Laird's best book yet.-- "Irish Times"

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Connecting Poetry and People. Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & The Arts Council of NI. Also @PoetryDay_IRL and @PoetryIrelandEd (Education)

“New York’s Irish Arts Center upgrades to a flagship hub...a home as big as its aspirations”—The New York Times #newIAC

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