Patrick Kavanagh's imagery is drawn from the life of the Irish country poor, which he shared at first hand, and an inner landscape of pain and self-knowledge. His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry—ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.
1973 / paper / ISBN 0-393-00694-8 / 206 pages / 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" / Poetry
