The Blind Stitch Poems |
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| Author:
| Delanty, Greg |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8071-2821-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2002 |
| Publisher: | LSU Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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The poems in
The Blind Stitch interweave family, marriage, love, and friendship into a larger world of public life. Set in Greg Delanty?s native Ireland, in America, and in India, the book is sewn together with two main conceits and arranged thematically in the form of a palindrome. One of the conceits is that of the leper, which concerns personal and public suffering and complicity; the other is that of needlework, the threads that run through our public and private lives, seen...
More DescriptionThe poems in The Blind Stitch interweave family, marriage, love, and friendship into a larger world of public life. Set in Greg Delanty?s native Ireland, in America, and in India, the book is sewn together with two main conceits and arranged thematically in the form of a palindrome. One of the conceits is that of the leper, which concerns personal and public suffering and complicity; the other is that of needlework, the threads that run through our public and private lives, seen and unseen, stitching us all together.