At Tarbert, waiting for the ferry across the Shannon (5-27-2017)
We went early this morning to the small estuary-side town of Tarbert—home of one of my favorite Irish modernists (poet, curator-librarian & friend of Jack Yeats, Joyce, Beckett & Stevens), Thomas McGreevy. The ferry there has been running for hundreds of years. We took it, with the car, across the Shannon & drove to the Cliffs of Moher, and then on to Galway. Here are some snaps I took as we waited for the Tarbert ferry. Click on any image for a larger view.
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 