Irish Musicians/American Friends

By Terence Winch

Book Overview

"The poems are anecdotal memoirs about the older men, the Irish musicians, who inducted Winch, the son of Irish immigrants, into their profession. Each poem's vignette or character sketch is connected to the others by the Irish-American milieu the characters shared, but more intimately by the flatness of the voice describing the people and the happenings. The voice features a vocabulary and syntax so controlled it creates the illusion of a perfect surface tension, perhaps the perfect expression of the times and atmosphere Winch describes in these poems. It's the kind of contemporary classic you want to share with the world." --Michael Lally

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918273129
• ISBN13: 9780918273123
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"