A Farewell to English by Michael Hartnett-Signed Limited Edition

I said “Grand Evening” and they looked at me awhile, then took their roads to Croom, Meentogues and Cahirmoyle

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Title
A Farewell to English
Publisher
Gallery Books, Dublin
Publication Date
1978
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Limited Edition
Condition
Fine
Dust Jacket Condition Fine
Hardcover with dust jacket now protected in removable cover. A Farewell to English is a political poem, presenting to readers a moment in the poet s life when his consciousness awakened to the problem of being an Irish writer who wrote in the English language. This enlarged limited signed edition includes other poems from before Hartnett’s resolution to write only in Irish, many of them unpublished or uncollected. “Her eyes were coins of porter and her West Limerick voice talked velvet in the house: her hair was black as the glossy fireplace wearing with grace her Sunday-night-dance best. She cut the froth from glasses with knife and hammered golden whiskies on the bar and her mountainy body tripped the gentle mechanism of verse: the minute interlock of word and word began, the rhythm formed. I sunk my hands into tradition”.  Collector’s Item.
Signed
Signed by Author

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