{"product_id":"with-the-first-dream-of-fire-they-hunt-the-cold-9780907562375","title":"With the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extraordinary collection brings together the entirety of his work up0 to 2003 that Trevor Joyce wishes to preserve. Joyce is Ireland's most stimulating late-modernist poet, unrepentantly engaging the global modernist tradition at a time when it would seem to many that Irish writers, north or south, prefer to hunker down and be parochial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I find myself almost surprised, after having lived with this book for several months, at how difficult I now find it to think of the landscape of contemporary poetry without this body of work. It is a book that deserves to find a wide and diverse readership.\" Nate Dorward, Chicago Review)  \"This book collects work since 1966, but about three-quarters of it consists of poems written in the last seven or so years, witness to a quite remarkable flowering of Joyce's talent. The work is consistently interesting, formally engaging, wide-ranging and risky: altogether an unmissable collection.\" (Peter Sirr, Poetry Ireland Review)  \"The later poems in With the first dream of fire are extraordinary ... Joyce's inventiveness, restlessness, range  -  these qualities in operation and not simply packaged in last year's Christmas wrapping  -  are simply stunning. The title of this review ['with the fire in him now'] is borrowed from Krapp's Last Tape. 'Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. [Krapp motionless staring before him. The tape runs on in silence.]' Krapp's closing words test an actor's control at the limits of ability; a prick of compromise deflates pretension entirely. Joyce's writing produces that same white sound again and again, which is the highest praise.\" (J.C.C. Mays, Dublin Review)","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768386027863,"sku":"9780907562375","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780907562375.jpg?v=1758717629","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/with-the-first-dream-of-fire-they-hunt-the-cold-9780907562375","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}