ALL LEGENDARY OBSTACLE, WITH A DRAWING BY BARRIE COOKE (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)

Author: Montague, John
Title: ALL LEGENDARY OBSTACLE, WITH A DRAWING BY BARRIE COOKE (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
Publication: Dublin, Ireland / Chester Springs, PA: The Dolmen Press / Dufour Editions, Inc., 1966
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Quarto, 11 in. x 7.1 in., pp. 26, [2]. Signed by the author on the rear colophon. Limited edition of 350 - with 100 copies for the U.S.A.. White marbled paper boardswith dark brown title to spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Publisher's sticker (Dufour Editions) to bottom of front pastedown. Touch of waviness to leaves on hinge side. Rubbing to dustjacket edges with chips to corners and spine ends. Touch of age-toning to dustjacket, with light staining to rear of dustjacket. Price clipped with price $5.95 stamped to bottom of front flap. Protected in mylar. Good Plus / Good Plus.

Fifteen poems by John Montague (1929 - 2016), who was born in Brooklyn to Irish Catholic parents who had been involved in Ireland’s post-1916 national strife and had immigrated to the United States. In New York the family struggled through the Great Depression, and in 1933 four-year-old Montague and his two brothers were sent back to Ireland. Montague was raised by two aunts on the family farm and educated at the seminary of Saint Patrick’s College in Armagh. He attended the University College Dublin, where he published his first poems.

Montague’s poems often find their shape in extended sequences that engage themes of travel and exile, national identity, and personal loss. As Edna Longey noted in the Times Literary Supplement: “more than any poet of his generation he opened up channels between the Irish and English tradition, between regional and cosmopolitan allegiances, between Ulster and Irish perspectives.” (from Poetry Foundation).

Seller ID: 88903

Subject: Irish and Ireland


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