Irish Musicians/American Friends
Winch, Terence / Campbell, Susan
Poetry. Winner of the American Book Award 1986. "Beautiful, simple, often heartbreaking poems about the big-city Irish, by a son of immigrants.... [Winch] undeniably has the gift--a blend of the two Jameses, Joyce and Farrell"--The Washington Post. "The poems completely move me as being Irish, they get the depth, the unspeaking of our very private people. The language is just right each time the way they pretend they are not poems. They rescue...