Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil

by Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for 30 years and his poetry has acquired a huge international following. Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil is his most challenging and engaging collection yet, one that addresses itself through Ireland and the Irish diaspora to the whole world beyond.

Genres: Poetry

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Paul Durcan was an Irish poet.

Reviews

[Ramzzi · Rating 3 out of 5]

An unexpected book that I bought for only Php 10.

Greetings to our Friends in Brazil by Paul Durcan is funny, surreal, and bright with short lines of melancholic beauty.

The very weakness though, Durcan had the modernists as muses—the influence (and parody) of Eliot and Pound are too much. Name-dropping had been the tricks and the trade of some poets, especially the American modernists, that Durcan was recklessly indulged to be that provincial. Amazingly—the Irish poet pulled it off. He wasnʼt obvious, and the musicality still lingers verse by verse. What this collection also best offered was the Murakami diss that made Durcan a radical humorist of modern Irish contemporaneous verse. It was indeed funny.

Readers might perplexed with all the names, places, dates, and the loose narrative akin to Poundʼs undertakings in the Cantos; but here Durcan was very natural with the lowlife—a great contrast to the high art-satire of the modernists.

[Richard Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poems you can read as easily as prose and yet get all the power of poetry. And funny, very funny.

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