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• catalog abstract "In Michael Stephens's words, "the net these pieces fall into is that world of the Irish American, the mick, the monkey face, the potato picker, the bog man." More to the point, it is the Irish of Stephens's youth, of Brooklyn's working-poor slums, under whose influence he composed these essays. In each of the book's three sections, he looks back on his life as he ponders a legendary quality - or, sometimes, proclivity - of his people as writers, fighters, or drinkers. Searching for the truths in the stereotypes, Stephens finds himself in what he discovers. Schoolyard bullies, surly longshoremen, boxers, and gangsters populate the opening section. On the subject of gangsters, Stephens takes a measure of their Hollywood renditions and finds them wanting. Those old James Cagney movies and such recent films as State of Grace have their moments, he says, but they can't touch the real thing - the vengeful, chaotic despots of Hell's Kitchen and the Manhattan waterfront. The lucky punch and its consequences to sender and recipient form the core of Stephens's musings on boxing, which are enriched by his own experiences in the ring. Reckoning his various literary debts, Stephens assays Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Yeats, and lays cultural claim to the Continental writers Italo Calvino and Thomas Bernhard, whom Stephens likes to regard as lost tribesmen of the Celts, products of a literary diaspora. This section also includes a profile of Bill Griffith, comic book artist and creator of Zippie the Pinhead. "Griffy" came from childhood circumstancee so similar to Stephens's that he categorically nods assent to Zippie's surreal observations. A Dantesque tour of the alcoholic's poisoned and ever-shrinking microcosm concludes Green Dreams - a tour complete with highlights of Stephens's progress from check-in at a treatment center through detoxification, counseling, and that state of eternal penance known as rehabilitation. Beginning at age fifteen, Stephens drank every day - for more than twenty years. As he recalls some of those good and bad times, Stephens also assembles a kind of pantheon of great American drinkers - including Ernest Hemingway, Spencer Tracy, and W.C. Fields - against which he rates his own drinking needs, capacities, and habits. . Whether the ability to persevere in good humor and to accept the world in all its messiness is necessarily an Irish trait, it is in Stephens's blood, and flows from the heart of Green Dreams.".
• catalog contributor b7469124.
• catalog coverage "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
• catalog coverage "Ireland In literature.".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description ". Whether the ability to persevere in good humor and to accept the world in all its messiness is necessarily an Irish trait, it is in Stephens's blood, and flows from the heart of Green Dreams.".
• catalog description "A Dantesque tour of the alcoholic's poisoned and ever-shrinking microcosm concludes Green Dreams - a tour complete with highlights of Stephens's progress from check-in at a treatment center through detoxification, counseling, and that state of eternal penance known as rehabilitation. Beginning at age fifteen, Stephens drank every day - for more than twenty years.".
• catalog description "As he recalls some of those good and bad times, Stephens also assembles a kind of pantheon of great American drinkers - including Ernest Hemingway, Spencer Tracy, and W.C. Fields - against which he rates his own drinking needs, capacities, and habits.".
• catalog description "In Michael Stephens's words, "the net these pieces fall into is that world of the Irish American, the mick, the monkey face, the potato picker, the bog man." More to the point, it is the Irish of Stephens's youth, of Brooklyn's working-poor slums, under whose influence he composed these essays. In each of the book's three sections, he looks back on his life as he ponders a legendary quality - or, sometimes, proclivity - of his people as writers, fighters, or drinkers.".
• catalog description "Prologue: The Irish -- I. Fighting. Immigrant Waves. The Lucky Punch. Horses. Irish Gangsters -- 2. Writing. Under the Joyce Penumbra: Prologue to an Essay. Notes toward a Life of Brian O'Nolan. Homage to Thomas Bernhard. Italo Calvino: A Woman, a Moon, the City. The Comic Art of Bill Griffith: "Nation of Pinheads" Samuel Beckett. Five James Stephens. In the Valley of the Black Pig: Politics and the Imagination in William Butler Yeats -- 3. Drinking. The First Drink; or, Why I Hate Baseball. Tomato Cans. My Office. On Drink.".
• catalog description "Reckoning his various literary debts, Stephens assays Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Yeats, and lays cultural claim to the Continental writers Italo Calvino and Thomas Bernhard, whom Stephens likes to regard as lost tribesmen of the Celts, products of a literary diaspora.".
• catalog description "Schoolyard bullies, surly longshoremen, boxers, and gangsters populate the opening section. On the subject of gangsters, Stephens takes a measure of their Hollywood renditions and finds them wanting. Those old James Cagney movies and such recent films as State of Grace have their moments, he says, but they can't touch the real thing - the vengeful, chaotic despots of Hell's Kitchen and the Manhattan waterfront.".
• catalog description "Searching for the truths in the stereotypes, Stephens finds himself in what he discovers.".
• catalog description "The lucky punch and its consequences to sender and recipient form the core of Stephens's musings on boxing, which are enriched by his own experiences in the ring.".
• catalog description "This section also includes a profile of Bill Griffith, comic book artist and creator of Zippie the Pinhead. "Griffy" came from childhood circumstancee so similar to Stephens's that he categorically nods assent to Zippie's surreal observations.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 210 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0820316164 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
• catalog spatial "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Ireland In literature.".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
• catalog subject "814/.54 20".
• catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
• catalog subject "English literature Irish authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Irish Americans New York (State) New York Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "PS3569.T3855 Z468 1994".
• catalog subject "Stephens, Michael Gregory Homes and haunts New York (State) New York.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The Irish -- I. Fighting. Immigrant Waves. The Lucky Punch. Horses. Irish Gangsters -- 2. Writing. Under the Joyce Penumbra: Prologue to an Essay. Notes toward a Life of Brian O'Nolan. Homage to Thomas Bernhard. Italo Calvino: A Woman, a Moon, the City. The Comic Art of Bill Griffith: "Nation of Pinheads" Samuel Beckett. Five James Stephens. In the Valley of the Black Pig: Politics and the Imagination in William Butler Yeats -- 3. Drinking. The First Drink; or, Why I Hate Baseball. Tomato Cans. My Office. On Drink.".
• catalog title "Green dreams : essays under the influence of the Irish / Michael Stephens.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".