PDF⋙ The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley
The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Following the remarkable riches of Gorse Fires, the poems brought together under the title The Ghost Orchid share some of the same concerns, but take many different approaches. Whether in the west of Ireland, Sissinghurst or the stone gardens of Japan; whether confronting the blood of The Iliad or The Odyssey or undergoing Ovidian metamorphoses;” whether testing poetic form or renewing Ulster Scots dialect, Longley speaks with pared delicacy, passion and vulnerability about love, life and death. A lyric craftsman of genius, Michael Longley has written a book that is fragile and exquisitelike the evanescent ghost orchid itselfyet full of tragic intensity; it is his finest achievement. From reader reviews: Douglas Barney: Now a day those who Living in the era just where everything reachable by talk with the internet and the resources inside it can be true or not require people to be aware