adrian fox <adrianpfox8@gmail.com>	Sat, Aug 24, 2:14 PM (2 days ago)
to me

I found a manuscript at the bottom

Of a box, brown and dog eared

With age. It gives me a sense

of I am-ness, even if you don’t care?

 POETRY M.A. THESIS

                   THE POET’S HOUSE

                              1997

                      ADRIAN FOX

         CRAIGAVON, CO, ARMAGH

                    

                        N,IRELAND

                          BT655AF

                      THE PAPER

   

   IRISH AND AMERICAN POETRY

PATRICK KAVANAGH AND

                                    RAYMOND CARVER

“WHERE WATER COME’S TOGETHER    

           WITH OTHER WATER”

In this thesis I hope to link the streams of

poetry from the Grand canal, Dublin and

the rivers that flow through Port Angelus,

Washington state, Carver and Kavanagh

country. Those last lines above from a Carver

poem, “where water comes together with

other water” for me depicts Patrick

Kavanagh’s Grand Canal Bank” and Raymond

Carver’s, A new path to the waterfall, as well

as showing me here, the real link on the

shores of their streams of poetry: loving them

all back to the source./ loving everything that

increases me.

Both these selections of poetry were written

in the last years of the poets lives, and as

Carver wife the poet Tess Gallagher says in

the introduction to, A new path to the

waterfall:  this is a last book and last things as

we learn, have rights of their own, they don’t

need us, but in our need of them  we

commemorate and make more real that

finality which  encircles us and draws again

into that central question, what is life for ?

TO BE CONTINUED.......