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Who wrote these poems--and why? Poetry has always been in Susan's writings, filled with emotion, diversity, intensity, and whimsy. It reflects her searches for both her Irish and Jewish heritages, her Quaker involvement, and her love of Washington, DC, where she has lived for more than fifty years. A poli sci major at Wellesley, she edited a book on Irish politics in Boston when in grad school at Boston University. Eventually, she came to DC as an international affairs management intern--a program at which she met her husband on the first day.

After the riots in DC that followed Rev....

Composed of eighty-one nine-line poems, Meehan s extraordinary new collection is at once a free-form dance and a controlled meditation on the nature of memory, community, love, and poetry itself. Her celebration of the power of dream and of song is neither escape nor hermetic retreat but a
means to navigate "the long night s journey into day." A true citizen poet, Meehan begins her work in intimate feeling but is always focused on the world.

Comprising eighty-one poems 9-syllable 9-line poems, Irish poet Paula Meehan's extraordinary new collection explores the subjects of loss, return, memory and the power of art, in which the linked but not strictly sequential poems act like tarot cards or i ching hexagrams, providing moments of clarity and insight during "the long night's journey into day."

Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. This is her seventh collection of poems. She has written plays for both adults...

This study provides an analytic framework---a theory of knowledge than identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing human action and the criteria for evaluating them. Eugene Meehan applies his theories empirically to the real world and provides normative approaches for his generalizations about governmental and individual policies. This theoretical study builds on his earlier works and is intended for political and social scientists and graduate students.

The book opens with a description of the the author's theory of knowledgement, and then identifies how to...