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Rooted in the social activism of Vatican II, the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties, the poetry of John Sheehan is filled with keen observations of place, people and time, where steel mills and sand dunes intersect with schoolchildren, overhead remarks, blues and jazz, where pumpkins sit beneath TV sets blaring the evening news.Leaving Garyconfronts issues of race and class, religion and landscape, memory and media, chronicling places which changed and places we wish would change.

Leaving Gary

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    A Paperback / softback by John Sheehan

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/12/1997
      ISBN13: 9781882688166, 978-1882688166
      ISBN10: 1882688163

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      Book Synopsis
      Rooted in the social activism of Vatican II, the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties, the poetry of John Sheehan is filled with keen observations of place, people and time, where steel mills and sand dunes intersect with schoolchildren, overhead remarks, blues and jazz, where pumpkins sit beneath TV sets blaring the evening news.Leaving Garyconfronts issues of race and class, religion and landscape, memory and media, chronicling places which changed and places we wish would change.

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