UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

James Liddy, Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 517
Phone: 414-229-5441
e-mail: liddy@uwm.edu

Degree(s):

M.A., National University of Ireland-Dublin

Research Interests:

Literature and culture of Modern Ireland (1800-2000)
Poetics, the History of Poetry, Poetry Writing
American Literature, Beat Generation to present

Teaching Interests:

Irish Literature & Folklore/Poetry
Creative Writing/Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance

Recent Publications:

Books
On the Raft with Fr. Roseliep. Galway, Ireland: Arlen House, 2007. Poems.

The Doctor's House. Co. Clare, Ireland: Salmon Publishing, 2004. Autobiography.

Yeats: New Ways of Falling in Love. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 2003. Poem.

Articles
"The Architect of Love: Patrick Kavanagh and the Beat Generation." In The London Magazine, Vol. 42 (November-December 2003), 72-79.

"Croesus and Dorothy Day: Moon Gaffney's Irish America." In New Hibernia Review 7:1 (Spring 2003), 9-13.

Poems
"La Muerte de Joselito," On Loop Head," "For Allen Ginsberg I982," "For Lorna Reynolds," In Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice, A Tribute to James Liddy, ed. Michael Begnal, Arlen House, 2006, 20, 89, 100, 127.

"Osip Mandelstam Flower," "Osip Mandelstam Rome." In An Sionnach I:11 Spring 2005, 13-20.

"The Tree of Which." The Irish Times, July 30, 2005.

"David and Jonathan." In The Gay and Lesbian Review, X11, No 5, (September- October 2005), 5.

Work in Progress
Second volume of autobiography, The Full Shilling (Manuscript under contract with Salmon)
Volume of poetry in preparation

I Only Know I Love Strength in My Friends and Greatness
Wedge