The Willow’s Whisper: A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America (Paperback)

“This thought provoking and imaginative anthology brings poems and poets from diverse sociolinguistic and cultural traditions together into dialogue. Central yet marginalized within their respective discourses, the genus of this anthology is to change the dominant focus. By pairing these ‘non-canonical’ texts, this anthology opens new vistas, and makes new connections amplifying human and cultural concerns all too often lost in the official Anglo-American literary and cultural canon.”—Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA“One travels hopefully through The Willow’s Whisper. At the heart of this spirited collection rests the perennial wisdom that foreign is native, and native foreign.”—Dr Peter Van de Kamp, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland“A marvellous introduction to the contemporary poetry of the North American Indian, and an inspired get-together with Irish poets writing in Irish—so different in their origins, so similar in their humor and sadness.”—Eoghan Mac Aogáin, Linguistics Institute of Ireland