{"product_id":"dear-life-paperback","title":"Dear Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis O'Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis O'Driscoll died too young, and before the US publication of his new book of poems, on Christmas Eve 2012. \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e represents the work of a truly international poet who spoke far beyond his native Ireland. A longing-filled recognition of the preciousness of existence, Dear Life draws upon the most contemporary of issues--the internet era, compensation culture, global warming--to address the timeless topics of working and aging, loving and dying, God and mammon. As Seamus Heaney writes in his foreword, O'Driscoll's \"work was a new growth ring in the old tree of Irish poetry, and while his life was spent in passionate devotion to the art it was also--given his distinguished career in the civil service--devoted to Ireland.\" O'Driscoll's poems give voice to a nation, with its twenty-first-century attitudes toward religion, economics, and nationality, its immigration, poverty, and consumerism, while his ambitious title sequence attempts a rigorous and unflinchingly personal exploration of the purpose of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis O'Driscoll: Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012), a former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review, \u003c\/i\u003e was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, \u003ci\u003eStepping Stones.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e famously (and deservedly) called O'Driscoll \"one of the best-read men in the Western world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67887389212824,"sku":"9781556594076","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/3Sz-MgQgy59781556594076.webp?v=1793757067","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/dear-life-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}