Barley Child (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)
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Barley Child, Greg Rappleye’sfifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives—realled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in which the human figures are often unnamed. The sum of these affidavits, arrayed across the lyric and narrative lines of these poems, is an electrifying human choir—mae and female, child and adult, Irish and American—thir voices rising out of shame, poverty, absurdity, violence, a strained Catholic faith, and a virulent legacy of madness and alcoholism. Free of nostalgia and cant, with a sharp Irish wit that often braves