More Praise for Go Giants
“An intricately woven display of memory, passion and learning . . . impressive . . . startling.” —Sunday Telegraph
“Both playful and powerful . . . wonderful. . . . At his frequent best he finds the right voice to address and calm the fears of past and future times.” —Daily Telegraph
“Undoubtedly [Laird’s] most accomplished, fully realised and ambitious collection to date . . . fiercely intelligent and persuasive. . . . It’s only fitting that it is a poet of Laird’s skill who reminds us of the rewards that are reaped by language that is hard won and powerfully executed.” —Irish Post
“Go Giants is both passionate and thoughtfully constructed. Anyone with an interest in the continuing evolution of Irish poetry will want to read it.” —Irish Times
More Praise for On Purpose and To a Fault
“Loquacious, voluble, able to revel in details. . . . Laird’s ear for ‘smallish lexical mercies’ yields superb lines.”
—Stephen Burt,
New York Times Book Review
“Dammit, this is what a poetry collection should be: pained but sturdy, raw but dignified, lyrical but never fussy. On Purpose . . . will knock you flat.” —Dave Eggers
Copyright © 2013 by Nick Laird
First American Edition 2013
First published in 2013 by Faber and Faber Limited
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Laird, Nick, 1975–
[Poems. Selections]
Go Giants / Nick Laird. — First American Edition.
pages cm
Poems.
ISBN 978-0-393-34744-9 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-393-34769-2 (e-book)
I. Title.
PR6112.A35A6 2013b
821'.92—dc23
2013019964
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