That Ship Has Sailed synthesizes the serious and comic to address sex, love, loss, death, belief, the afterlife, and the past. Amplified by the poet's work as a traditional Irish musician and composer, language is the adhesive that brings the work together across the avant-garde to traditional forms and meters.
This young adult novel brings to life the Irish immigrant world of 20th-century urban America, offering an inside look at a universe where two cultures--Irish and American--blended together. As Matt Coffey and his friends face the Fordham Baldies gang, courage, love, and a mother's sickness create unforgettable life lessons.e lessons.
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...
