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The Ship of Birth

The Ship of Birth PDF Author: Greg Delanty
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132195
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
The Ship of Birth records a father’s responses in the time immediately before and after the birth of his child. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a ship of death, so this ship of birth contains what is significant to the child: the wonder and trepidation of the parents, reflections on the nature of the soul, thoughts on the future growth of the child. Greg Delanty’s poems draw on his experiences in American and Irish cultures, using the traditional verse structures of seventeenth-century religious poets along with open modern colloquial forms to evoke the subtle interconnections of the past and future. Delanty acknowledges the dark and difficult reality that the child faces, while affirming the sustaining continuity of life.
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