Thursday, May 18, 2006

Clare Boylan (1948-2006)

Clare Boylan also has died: Irish author who achieved wide acclaim with Emma Brown, the completion of a two-chapter fragment by Charlotte Brontë. (Thanks once more to Rus Bowden.)
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  1. Anonymous11:22 AM

    First it was Vine Deloria (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1649218,00.html) in November last year, and this year John McGahern in March (http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1743320,00.html), then Stanley Kunitz last week, and now Boylan. My library should be named "Books of the Dead." Are there any young writers today prepared to fill the void?

    "To be rocked by the infinite!
    As if it didn't matter
    which way was home;
    as if he didn't know
    he loved the earth so much
    he wanted to stay forever."

    from "The Long Boat" by Stanley Kunitz

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