{"product_id":"9781556592805","title":"Reality Check","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Dennis O’Driscoll . . . is one of the most interesting poets now writing in English.”—Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work...Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O'Driscoll's mind...ruminates on experience with alacrity, humility, and an unwillingness to pontificate. His talent — which could equally grace a novel — should stand the test of time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His terrain is, in effect, without borders: mordant, open, sharp, generous, and sad.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[O'Driscoll's] poems dance deftly on the tongue.... The collection offers a cornucopia of visual and aural delights, a Whitmanic appreciation of both nature and human creation that nevertheless recognizes the global dangers posed by the latter.... O'Driscoll's U.S. debut is a bracing introduction to a poet whose work American readers have gone without for too long.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis O’Driscoll’s poetry is invigorating, grounded, and modern, with an ear attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life in a “globalized” Ireland. When \u003ci\u003eReality Check \u003c\/i\u003ewas published last year in the United Kingdom, it was named one of the top ten books of 2007 by \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003eof London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO’Driscoll, who tours regularly in the United States, excels at stripping away stereotypes. He incorporates the language of the business world into his poetry, often to comic effect. His job as a civil servant for nearly forty years, “a lifetime’s fug of arbitrations, ordinances, inter-agency liaisons,” has made him privy to the intricacies of bureaucracy, diplomacy, and commerce, and has given him a knack for transforming timeless themes through “workaday words” and present-day concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLean on the green recycle bin in the yard where roses run amok,\u003cbr\u003escent intensified by last night’s rain . . .\u003cbr\u003eRest on the laurels of your elbows.\u003cbr\u003eConsent to mind and body going their ways amicably, a trial separation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis O’Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e, author of ten books, is one of Ireland’s most popular poets and critics. According to \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, he is “one of the best-read men in the Western world.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060305641712,"sku":"9781556592805","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592805_p0.jpg?v=1763756118","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592805","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}