Wake Forest University Press

Irish Poetry | Rare & Collectible

Richard Murphy - The Price of Stone and Earlier Poems

First American edition, with original jacket, colored endsheets, and in excellent condition

"A masterly production by any standard, The Price of Stone is a major event in Anglo-Irish poetry, one whose significance extends well beyond this island.... A connoisseur in selecting verbal materials, a craftsman in assembling, Murphy proves himself to be an accomplished poetic architect as well." Joseph Sendry, Irish University Review

"I welcome The Price of Stone as Richard Murphy's best collection so far.  From book to book, in fact, Murphy has made his language more supple, more inclusive, drawing deeper and more complex areas of his identity into the light... Witty, inventive, fit--the language of The Price of Stone is full of such remarkable animations." Eamon Grenna, Finding Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century

"We can live with his poems, admiring each stony word that has weathered the test of time and human use." Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Moniter

$40
1985   190 pages
clothbound
First edition, rare and collectibe
ISBN 978-0-916390-24-2