The poem and the book end with Peace opening her eyes and staring at, even outstaring, Death. |
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Did the animal reclaim him or did power hold sway outstaring its fate and the twisted flesh become its own monument stone with the stone it had raised to glory? |
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It was not until 1993 with the publication of Denis Sampson's Outstaring Nature's Eye that serious McGahern studies began in earnest. |
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