Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley french Hailed as the ‘prophet’ of

Hailed as the ‘prophet’ of the Surrealist movement by André Breton

‘Here is a poet with a commanding style

The phrase "the distaff side" also refers to the maternal branch in genealogy

who seemed to want to establish the Spanish avant-garde as an independent force

and descriptions of the documents themselves

Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley french Hailed as the ‘prophet’ ofMaura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex feelings Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical