The Hellbox by Greg Delanty
The conceit that unites this poetry collection is the technology, lore, and tradition of printing. The Hellbox is the box into which printers chucked broken or worn hot-metal type. Delanty expands this conceit to include a wide human discourse of family feelings and affections. His own father was a master-printer, and some of the poems are expressions of the deepest love between father and son. The passing on of skills between generations is also taken up into the emotional and intellectual shaping of the work, as is the theme of genetic imprinting.
Greg Delanty was born in Cork City, Ireland, in 1958 and lived in Cork until 1986. For three months of each year he returns to his Irish home in Derrynane, County Kerry. His most recent books are The New Citizen Army, The Ship of Birth (Louisiana State University Press 2006), The Blind Stitch (LSU Press, 2003) and The Hellbox (Oxford University Press 1998)). His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is out from the Oxford Poet's series of Carcanet Press. He edited, with the scholar Michael Matto, The Word Exchange, Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (WW Norton, November, 2010). He has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry. The magazine Agenda devoted a recent issue to celebrate Greg Delanty's 50th birthday. The National Library of Ireland have recently acquired his papers up to the end of 2012. He is the Past President of the Association of Literary scholars, Critics and Writers. He is a US citizen and an Irish Citizen and teaches at Saint Michael's College, Vermont. He has lived in Vermont since 1986.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192880888 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192880888 |
| Title | The Hellbox |
| Author | Greg Delanty |
| Series | Oxford Poets S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 53 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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