EUROPA

Europa, Sean OBriens ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it i s also a shared heritage and an age-old state of being, a place where our common dreams, visions and nightmares recur and mutate. In placing our present crises in the context of an imaginative past, OBrien show how our futures will be determined by what we choose to understand of our own European identity as well as what we remember and forget of our shared history.Europa is a magisterial, grave and lyr...[Read more]