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FirefliesFrank Ormsby10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, Irish
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Aug 2011) 9781847778451 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
The beers of America find their local here,
the Dixie Crimson Voodoo, the Winter Hook, the Magic Hat Fat Angel. Whole seasons have arrived in brown bottles from Oregon and Vermont, Wisconsin and Colorado, to be enjoyed outdoors while the light holds or at lamplit tables. from 'At the Lazy Boy Saloon and Ale Bar'
Frank Ormsby's new collection travels among places strange and familiar: from the shaping memories of an upbringing in rural County Fermanagh, to a Belfast reinventing itself in a new century and the exhilarating novelty of America.
In the first part of Fireflies Ormsby explores the past and vibrant present of an area of New York State which he has visited for the past twelve years. It remains to him as elusive as the 'fugitive selves' of the fireflies of the title. The latter part of the book engages with the poet's experience of his native Northern Ireland - the sour legacy of the Troubles, the dynamics of a community extending and remaking itself. Ormsby says he is by nature an 'anxious optimist', and these precisely lyrical poems are by turns elegiac and celebratory.
Contents
PART ONE Fireflies One Looks at One The Kensico Dam At the Lazy Boy Saloon and Ale Bar Valhalla Journal Next Stop Cemetery Walks In Kensico Cemetery After the Storm Immigrants Stormy Night, Route 87 Dry Side or Wet Side? Davis Brook Washington’s Headquarters What Will Survive New World Two Birthday Poems Some Older American Poets On Not Hearing the American Nightjar Catching Fireflies Fireflies in a Belfast Garden After the Japanese Firefly Hour The Celtic Firefly PART TWO The Aluminium Box Silent Reading The Rabbit Smiling Foetus The Hole in the Roof Blackbirds, North Circular Road from City Journal Aubade The Ice-Bird The Shirt Factory Derelict Building, Limestone Road Storm, North Circular Road, 2 a.m. The Three Czechs Small World Leaving Minnesota Colin Middleton, ‘Lagan, Annadale’ (1941) The Telescope The Statues The Gate Avigliana Some Spring Moons, North Circular Road The Whooper Swan The Builder
Awards won by Frank Ormsby
Winner, 2010 Morning Star Favourite Collection (Fireflies)
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