Europa by Sean O'Brien Mario Petrucci Troup’s long knowledge of languages

Troup’s long knowledge of languages leads to a final gift to her readers: the wit

The rest of the book is filled with voices: of children

and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety

intelligent and incisive

Europa by Sean O'Brien Mario Petrucci Troup’s long knowledge of languagesEuropa, Sean OBriens ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age old state of being, a place where our common dreams, visions and nightmares recur and mutate. In placing our present crises in the context of an imaginative past, OBrien show how our futures will be determined by what we choose to understand of our own European identity as well as what we