{"product_id":"enraptured-space-gender-class-and-ecology-in-the-work-of-paula-meehan-paperback-softback-9781959000457","title":"Enraptured Space; Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan (Paperback \/ softback) 9781959000457","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnraptured Space\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathryn J. Kirkpatrick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781959000457\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w images\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 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\"A polished, moving, deeply intelligent study of Paula Meehan’s poetry, which goes beyond a single poet’s life and work to illuminate an entire culture....I am unaware of another seriously academic study of a contemporary poet’s work written by another poet.\"—Maureen O’Connor, professor, University College Cork and author of \u003ci\u003eEdna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction\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\"\u003eIn the first book-length study of Paula Meehan, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literary landscape and beyond. Drawing on her own lived experience as a practicing poet, Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick explores how scholarship is grounded in an imaginative exchange between the words on the page and the material conditions of the scholar who works to inhabit them. With chapters of literary analysis swimming in a conversation between two poets, this book breaches the boundaries between criticism and memoir, suggesting ways that every scholar is transformed by the subjects they study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Paula Meehan, Kirkpatrick has found a powerful poet to both study and love, and her reading of Meehan’s poetry and prose through the lenses of gender studies, the environmental humanities, and social class offers a passionate endorsement of Meehan’s radical interventions in the canon of Irish poetry. This work explores eight volumes of Meehan’s poetry, including Dharmakaya, Painting Rain, and Geomantic.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: In Medias Res\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Witnessing Class Trauma\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Resisting Environmental Injustice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3:\u003cbr\u003e Toward an Animistic Vision\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Restoring the Garden\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Beyond Human Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6:The Shamanic Poet\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739522429208,"sku":"9781959000457","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/enraptured-space-gender-class-and-ecology-in-the-work-of-paula-meehan-paperback-softback-9781959000457","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}