{"product_id":"untitled-20jul_15-18","title":"Farewell To America (Steve Huenneke)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarewell To America is most definitely a classic ‘zeitgeist’ collection of poetry, of its time and for such a time as this. Steve Huenneke has come as an immigrant bringing his diversity and his culture and thereby has enriched ours with a very fitting reply to the ‘America ‘ he left, and the ‘America’ he saw coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeirdre McGarry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditor, Wexford Women Writing Undercover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor me, these are haiku of hiraeth, it is this that connects all of them in Farewell To America. This body of work is a body that can house two hearts. There are so many ambivalent references to the America of Steve Huenneke’s imagination and the America of his experience,  which suggests his attempt to understand his own transatlantic sense of home as well as homelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDominic Williams \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Huenneke's Farewell to America is an ode of affection, nostalgia, and grief for the Missouri and the America of the past, encapsulated in a collection of one hundred haikus. The \"Farewell\" of the title is not just a reference to the physical leaving of his home place but to the very existence of, as is now evident, the illusory Land of the Free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeirdre Wadding \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounder and Teacher,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCOIRE SOIS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchool of Irish Spirituality \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its brevity, there is no way the haiku can be considered a slight form. It lends itself so well to the pithy phrase or a moment of significant insight. Of course, when several of them are gathered, the laser-like lens of the haiku widens and is intensified. All of this is apparent in Farewell To America, this collection by Wexford’s adopted bardic son Steve Huenneke. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a genuinely forceful and pervasive democratic spirit at work and on display across this collection. The world is chaotic and needs some civilizing wisdom and insight, this is the context of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Derek Coyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlow College\/St Patrick’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor of Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster (2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Irish Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55580086075727,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/6140\/9451\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_08679a03-5411-4450-9fd8-32d4af757743.jpg?v=1753021103","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.pro\/products\/untitled-20jul_15-18","provider":"The Irish Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}