{"product_id":"barley-child-paperback-softback-9781682262696","title":"Barley Child (Paperback \/ softback) 9781682262696","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGreg Rappleye (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781682262696\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Like the characters in all the best poetry collections—and this is one of those—the people who inhabit the ‘blown-gasket town’ depicted here are utterly different from you and me and also exactly like us. How is this possible? Through Greg Rappleye’s unfailing artistry.” —David Kirby, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House on Boulevard St.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Greg Rappleye welds a poet’s ear for cadence and music to a novelist’s eye for detail, opening up for us a Hiberno-inflected Americana. Here in controlled diction, deployed for dizzying effect, we find lives without privilege, lives of stratified emotion layered upon a cornucopia of plant life, urban bric-a-brac, and mid-twentieth-century cultural artifacts. Rappleye paints for us a portrait of a time which is no more, but which can never fade completely while recorded by his precise language.” —Patrick Cotter, author of \u003ci\u003eSonic White Poise\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection so vividly imagined and so beautifully written that one hesitates to read the final poem, not wanting the spell to end.” —Julie Kane, author of \u003ci\u003eMothers of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/i\u003e, Greg Rappleye’s fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives—recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in which the human figures are often unnamed. The sum of these affidavits, arrayed across the lyric and narrative lines of these poems, is an electrifying human choir—male and female, child and adult, Irish and American—their voices rising out of shame, poverty, absurdity, violence, a strained Catholic faith, and a virulent legacy of madness and alcoholism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Free of nostalgia and cant, with a sharp Irish wit that often braves nearly monstrous subject matter, and reported with eyes that seldom mist over, \u003ci\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a volume that once again confirms Greg Rappleye as a poet of witness.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694720577816,"sku":"9781682262696","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/barley-child-paperback-softback-9781682262696","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}