My Aunts at Twilight Poker - Wall, Eamonn
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The rich narrative poems in My Aunts at Twilight Poker provide nuanced and many-sided explorations of Irish and Diasporic life--with particular focus on Eamonn Wall's hometown of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, and on St. Louis, Missouri, where he had lived for the past two decades--as both have unfolded through the past century. A focal point of the collection is Annie Murphy-Flood, the author's grandmother, who arrived in Enniscorthy as a newly married young woman in the early 20th century to open a business and start a family. Her life, practice, and the example she set form the moral force that…mehr

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The rich narrative poems in My Aunts at Twilight Poker provide nuanced and many-sided explorations of Irish and Diasporic life--with particular focus on Eamonn Wall's hometown of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, and on St. Louis, Missouri, where he had lived for the past two decades--as both have unfolded through the past century. A focal point of the collection is Annie Murphy-Flood, the author's grandmother, who arrived in Enniscorthy as a newly married young woman in the early 20th century to open a business and start a family. Her life, practice, and the example she set form the moral force that guides this collection. The book is also a homage to the lives of those who have been written out of history, and a personal response to a town that has changed but endured. In some respects a family history, My Aunts at Twilight Poker also highlights the role that places play in the development of their inhabitants. Writing from a distance across time and space allows Eamonn Wall the opportunity to recreate and observe quietly but uniquely. One home place is observed from another home place: we can belong to more than one town, city, or country. In poems that focus on the lives of the Irish overseas, Eamonn Wall asserts their connectedness to and roots in Ireland and wherever across the globe they have settled. Formally varied and blissfully alive, My Aunts at Twilight Poker is a finely tuned work, charged and captivating.
Autorenporträt
EAMONN WALL poetry collections include Dyckman-200th Street (1994), The Crosses (2000), Sailing Lake Mareotis (2011), and Junction City: New and Selected Poems (2015), all published by Salmon Poetry. In addition to poetry, Eamonn Wall has contributed essays and reviews to newspapers and journals including the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, Reading Ireland, the Irish Literary Supplement, Berfrois and other publications. His prose books are From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish, winner of the Durkan Award from the American Conference of Irish Studies; Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions; and From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America. He edited two volumes of James Liddy's essays for Arlen House and co-edited Coleridge and Contemplation for Poetica (Japan). Eamonn Wall is a past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and from 2014-19 served as a vice-president of Irish American Writers and Artists Inc., an organization founded to encourage Irish Americans to get involved in the arts. He was chosen as the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2014. For 2023, he has been selected as a fellow in non-fiction by the Writers' Institute of the City University of New York-Graduate Center. A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Eamonn Wall has lived in St. Louis for the past two decades. He works at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, teaching English and directing community outreach to the Irish American community and study abroad for UMSL Global, the university's international studies unit.