Author(s): James Joyce

Poetry

James Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was
also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of
the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. Pomes Penyeach, a
collection written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man, explores intimate themes of adultery, jealousy, and
betrayal that would reappear transformed in the later Ulysses. Joyce's occasional
verse includes the well-known 'Ecce Puer,' written for his newborn grandson, and his
satirical poems 'The Holy Office' and 'Gas from a Burner.' These poems are brought
together here with Joyce's play, Exiles--about an unconventional couple involved in a
love triangle--in a beautiful, accessible hardcover edition for the general reader.