Hundred Doors

Michael Longley has remarkable powers of reinvention. And Longley's interlacing of individual lyrics, so that a diverse collection seems a single poem, intensifies in the shadow of mortality. The title-poem evokes the oldest Byzantine church in Greece: Our Lady of a Hundred Doors on the island of Pa [...]
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Michael Longley has remarkable powers of reinvention. And Longley's interlacing of individual lyrics, so that a diverse collection seems a single poem, intensifies in the shadow of mortality. The title-poem evokes the oldest Byzantine church in Greece: Our Lady of a Hundred Doors on the island of Paros.