A Man Is Only As Good is a pocket-sized introduction to the poetry of award-winning Irish poet and writer Pat Boran, drawing on five previous full-length collections and including the late Dennis O'Driscoll's prose introduction to the poems. Described as "a writer of great tenderness and lyricism" (Agenda, UK), Boran makes heartfelt, deceptively simple poems that are at once "local and international, personal and scientific, full of wisdom and wry humor" (Irish Literary Supplement, USA).
The best poetry is a form of spiritual autobiography - poems that stand as way-markers along a poet's soul journey. Such poems tend to narrate a particular life- experience, but somehow in their telling they touch the soul of the reader. They remind us not so much of a shared experience but rather a shared knowing. They resonate with a mood or tone within ourselves that we instantly recognise as true.Such potent writing is a rare thing, but the poems gathered here [drawn from the extensive range of Dedalus Press books in print] are such poems - way-markers and turning points along the journey of our becoming. Each one captures an important rite of passage, or the closure or beginning of a personal epoch. Though the experience may be unique to its author, the poems resonate with a far wider sense of soul knowledge ... It is not the voice of one particular poet that we come away with, but rather the collective voice of our shared humanity.
Bilingual (English / Japanese) selection of poems by eminent Japanese poet Mutsuo Takahashi, including more than a dozen inspired by his visits to Ireland.
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