Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Paul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural tile for thirty years, and his poetry has acquired a huge international following. With Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil he has produced the correction by which his whole career will be judged.
It is a book of tremendous ambition, at once his most personal and his most public work to date. It will stand as his Prelude: a meticulously honest record of a writer's inner life, but it is also an audacious attempt to fix the sour of his country at a particular point in time -- years of Mary Robinson's presidency. The pain and redemption of his inner odyssey are mirrored in the images of an Ireland awakening from the nightmare of its violent past, becoming freer, more cosmopolitan, and less hypocritical.