{"product_id":"vinegar-hill-isbn-9780807006535","title":"Vinegar Hill","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. \u003ci\u003eVinegar Hill\u003c\/i\u003e explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Tóibín examines a wide range of subjects—politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, and facing mortality. The poems reflect a life well-traveled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Tóibín’s unique lens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion, and humor, Tóibín offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder, and cherish.September\u003cbr\u003eIn Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eCurves\u003cbr\u003eMysterium Lunae\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Trick\u003cbr\u003eTwo Grecos\u003cbr\u003eThunder All Night\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Catalan\u003cbr\u003eHigh Up\u003cbr\u003eAugust\u003cbr\u003eAnton Webern in Barcelona\u003cbr\u003eObject on a Table\u003cbr\u003eOrchard\u003cbr\u003eCush Gap, 2007\u003cbr\u003eMorning\u003cbr\u003eOpen House\u003cbr\u003eBlue Shutters\u003cbr\u003eShadows\u003cbr\u003eThe Marl Hole\u003cbr\u003eThe Nun\u003cbr\u003eThe Rosary\u003cbr\u003eVinegar Hill\u003cbr\u003eBishops\u003cbr\u003eKennedy in Wexford\u003cbr\u003eVatican II\u003cbr\u003eFace\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Air\u003cbr\u003eThe Torturer’s Art\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Poem\u003cbr\u003eLife\u003cbr\u003eDublin: Saturday, 23 May, 2015\u003cbr\u003eGellert Baths, Spring 1990\u003cbr\u003eDead Cinemas\u003cbr\u003eVariations on a Scene from Maeve Binchy\u003cbr\u003eI Ran Away\u003cbr\u003eThe House\u003cbr\u003eTwo or Three\u003cbr\u003eEmily Kngwarreye in Dublin\u003cbr\u003eIn Washington DC\u003cbr\u003eIn the White House\u003cbr\u003eLate\u003cbr\u003eNovember in America\u003cbr\u003eLines Written After the Second Moderna Vaccine at Dodgers’ Stadium Los Angeles, 27 February 2021\u003cbr\u003eDecember\u003cbr\u003eTwo Plus One\u003cbr\u003eIn Memoriam\u003cbr\u003eRitual\u003cbr\u003eFather \u0026amp; Son\u003cbr\u003eIn San Clemente\u003cbr\u003eEccles Street\u003cbr\u003eOrpheus\u003cbr\u003eSmall Wonder\u003cbr\u003eCanal Water\u003cbr\u003eTiepolo\u003cbr\u003ePrayer to St Agnes\u003cbr\u003eEve\u003cbr\u003eArafat in Tunis\u003cbr\u003eJericho\u003cbr\u003eValentin’s Prayer\u003cbr\u003ePangur\u003cbr\u003eBecause the Night“A meditative probe into the language of ordinary days.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the work of Colm Tóibín:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tóibín’s novels typically depict an unfinished battle between those who know what they feel and those who don’t, between those who have found a taut peace within themselves and those who remain unsettled.”\u003cbr\u003e—D. T. Max, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e recaptures a literary giant. . . . Symphonic and moving . . . Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tóibín’s work displays the kind of depth and sensitivity that few authors can offer. . . . The result is a beautiful, haunting portrayal.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A quiet tour de force: a work of deep seriousness and sympathy that gives us a genius in his full human dimensions. . . . [This] profound novel is—dare one say it?—masterly.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tóibín . . . [is] his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power.”\u003cbr\u003e—Floyd Skloot, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect. . . . \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e stands comparison with Henry James’s \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A high-wire act of an eighth novel . . . Tóibín’s radical restraint elevates what might have been a familiar tale of grief and survival into a realm of heightened inquiry. The result is a luminous, elliptical novel in which everyday life manages, in moments, to approach the mystical.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jennifer Egan, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e is an Irish novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet. He is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He has been short-listed 3 times for the Booker Prize and has won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, the Costa Novel of the Year, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Irish PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a vice president of the Royal Society of Literature.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301122822373,"sku":"NP9780807006535","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807006535.jpg?v=1767743460","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/vinegar-hill-isbn-9780807006535","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}