The Narrows

Tobin, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1884800599 / ISBN 13: 9781884800597

Published by Four Way Books, New York, 2005

About this Item

8vo, 178 pp.

Seller Inventory # 098263

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Narrows
• Publisher: Four Way Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884800599
• ISBN 13: 9781884800597
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Coming of age in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, these poems explore what it is to be an Irish American Catholic; a dutiful son of hard drinking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic parents; a son of Brooklyn; and, too, deeply rooted to the country of his ancestors, Ireland. Dark, funny, and sometimes troubling, these poems, always accessible, track a life well lived and felt.

About the Author

DANIEL TOBIN is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Where the World is Made (1999) and Double Life (2004); a book of criticism, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1999); and numerous essays on poetry. Among his awards are the Discovery/The Nation Award, The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, The Greensboro Review Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Chair of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston.