Desmond Egan

The Poet and His Work Series features outstanding contemporary writers. Desmone Egan is the author of nine books of poetry and a collection of Prose. He received the National Poetry Foundation of U.S.A. Award in 1983 and the Chicago Haymarket Literary Award in 1987. In the opinion of discerning critics, his is an important contemporary voice. This collection of essays and articles by distinguished writers from every corner of the globe examines not only the many facets of his achievement but also explores something of the personality of the man described by Hugh Kenner as The first Irish Poet to have broken free from the need to sound Irish.