The Body Politic: A Conversation with Paula Meehan

Randolph, Jody Allen

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“…43 In her 'holistic vision' of the world she believes in 'the interpenetration of all species and all creatures on the planet' and 'was always trying to find a way to integrate nature that didn't privilege [her]'. 44 As evinced by many 'Greek' poems in Painting Rain and Geomantic, Ikaria has enabled such an immediate and unequivocal integration: with her Greek surroundings, its forces of nature, her Ikarian house and garden, her husband, even the rest of the food chain and the afterlife. 'We have to integrate ourselves, or reintegrate ourselves', she declares, holding Christianity responsible for the disruption in this process.…”

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Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps

Kruczkowska

2023

Byz. Mod. Greek stud.

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The article focuses on the most elaborate of Paula Meehan's ‘Greek’ poems, ‘Flight JIK Olympic Airlines 016 to Ikaria, Greece’ (Painting Rain, 2009), inspired by her journey to Ikaria, in the framework of travel writing and ecocriticism. By transforming the matrix of W. H. Auden's ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’, and by representing a specific case of ecopoetry, Meehan's text challenges the precepts of footsteps and vertical travel genres. The comparison between the two poems has been contextualized by the Irish poet's environmental, political and artistic concerns, as well as her other poems, essays and travels in Greece.

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Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps

Kruczkowska

2023

Byz. Mod. Greek stud.

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Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry

Flannery

2018

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

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Text and Context: Paula Meehan

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2009

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This special issue celebrates and critiques the work of one of the most remarkable contemporary Irish poets. Over the past quarter century, through six volumes of poetry and eight plays, Paula Meehan has uncovered a terrain unique to her vision: lyric, dramatic, committed, and communal. The essays and interview featured in this issue clarify the extent of that vision by tracking Paul Meehan's poetic choices, her playwriting, and the social and ethical commitments that underlie both.And just as her poems are unique, so is her story. As the essays here show, Meehan found her world by displacing it. As a young Irish poet she left Ireland and traveled to the United States. She immersed herself in countercultural aesthetics, seeking out new narratives of Buddhism, neo-shamanism, bioregional ethics, and holistic healing. By so doing, she began her life as a poet by making profoundly original connections between Irish poetry and non-Irish influences, and positioning herself within them.Meehan's early work shows her continuing these multiple displacements: of city by suburb, of culture by counterculture, of Catholicism by Buddhism, of home by away. The deliberate estrangement of these encounters is eloquently described in this issue by another poet: "Meehan appears in her own early poems like some gypsy wanderer," writes Mary O'Malley, "with a gold ring, a sheaf of poems and the world her rightful oyster." Meehan's later work is acclaimed for its sense of place. But a closer look shows that a rich and inventive displacement within it has continued. fl

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The Body Politic: A Conversation with Paula Meehan

Cited by 8 publications

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Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps

Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps

Resisting Profit and Loss in Contemporary Irish EcoPoetry

Text and Context: Paula Meehan

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