{"product_id":"things-that-happen-9781848617124","title":"Things That Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 25 years Maurice Scully's work was devoted to a single vast project under the overall title of \u003cem\u003eThings That Happen\u003c\/em\u003e, which consists of \u003cem\u003e5 Freedoms of Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLivelihood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSonata\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTig\u003c\/em\u003e, the coda to the whole work. This volume brings together the entire project under one set of covers for the first time, and thoroughly revised at the same time, and is published siumultanesouly with a volume of essays on the author's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e' \u003cem\u003eThings That Happen\u003c\/em\u003e] is the most ambitious and important long poem in modern Irish literature.' -- Eric Falci\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While poets like William Carlos Williams once announced that anything was available for the subject of the poem, Scully turns the paradigm on its head. The poem becomes less about subject matter, or what the poem is \"about\", and more an occasion or experience in itself .... It is a poetry that is playful, irreverent, skittish, rhapsodic and paratactic all at the same time.\" -- Paul Perry, \u003cem\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Scully's] innovations ... take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any residual mythos, and use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody ... and truly, if one seeks a poetry of the moment that records and wryly critiques the inequities of modern life, Maurice Scully's is it.\" -- Marthine Satris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12470598\"\u003eMaurice Scully\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848617127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005020\"\u003eEuropean | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644347584749,"sku":"9781848617124","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_39323242-5fde-4e93-b713-b11301c89e55.jpg?v=1649131729","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/things-that-happen-9781848617124","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}