Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • "Double life. Double lives
  • Dinner at the Cafe Marliave
  • "Near hag's head"
  • Readings. Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge
  • The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
  • Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision
  • Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy
  • Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty
  • The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls
  • Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath
  • "Crossings." Crossings. The need for routes : genealogy in Irish American poetry
  • From Crispus Attucks to Mr. Bones : race in Irish American poetry
  • Over there : Irish American poets return
  • "A green road in Clare"
  • The wake of everything gone
  • Soundings and erasures : an Irish American poet digs up his past
  • "The line."