Poetry. Bilingual edition. In Irish and English, with translations by the author. In attempting to understand my world and myself through poetry written in a rather mandarin Irish...I have inevitably come up against my English, with its Irish substratum and American overlay. And I have fallen thankfully (back?) into the snares of the materiality of that other language, begun to consider the morality of style in English in ways I never have before. (from the preface) Gently, gently I take up a stone/ and knock on it, for I know it/ is a door. (from A Stone from the Great Blasket) By the author of A WREN, also available from SPD.

Author City: NESKOWIN, OR USA

Ger Killeen's most recent book is BLOOD ORBITS (Parlor Press, 2009) His previous books include SIGNS FOLLOWING (Parlor Press, 2005), A Wren, which won the 1989 Bluestem Award for Poetry, and LIA A LEIMFIDH THAR TONNTA/A STONE THAT WILL LEAP OVER THE WAVES (Trask House Books, 1999). His work has been anthologized in From Here We Speak (Oregon State University Press), On the Counterscarp (Salmon Publishing), and American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie-Mellon University Press). Killeen lives on the Oregon coast and is a professor in the Department of English Literature & Writing at Marylhurst University.