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A ghost in the throat / Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 326 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781771964111
  • 1771964111
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A female text -- A liquid echo -- To breathe elsewhere -- In the milking parlour -- An unscientific mishmash -- The dissection room -- Cold lips to cold lips -- Oubliette -- Blood in mud -- Two roads, each blurred -- Blot. Blot. -- Omen -- of planes and starlings -- To splinter the surface -- Now, then -- A sequence of shadows -- Wild bees and their fizzy curiosities -- How blurred the furze -- Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/The keen for /Art Ó Laoghaire.
Summary: In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain" during its era. A kaleidoscopic blend of memoir, autofiction, and literary studies, A Ghost in the Throat moves fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and the people who make it.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography OCONNELL E. N577 Available 33111010754873
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year * A Guardian Best Book of 2020 * Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize * Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize * Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize * A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title * Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize * A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 * A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 * An NPR Best Book of 2021 * A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 * A Globe and Mail Book of the Year * A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 * An Entropy Magazine Best of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2021 * A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 * A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.

On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlín Dubh's life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet's girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Ní Ghríofa sets out to discover Eibhlín Dubh's erased life--and in doing so, discovers her own.

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's.

Includes bibliographical references.

In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain" during its era. A kaleidoscopic blend of memoir, autofiction, and literary studies, A Ghost in the Throat moves fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and the people who make it.

A female text -- A liquid echo -- To breathe elsewhere -- In the milking parlour -- An unscientific mishmash -- The dissection room -- Cold lips to cold lips -- Oubliette -- Blood in mud -- Two roads, each blurred -- Blot. Blot. -- Omen -- of planes and starlings -- To splinter the surface -- Now, then -- A sequence of shadows -- Wild bees and their fizzy curiosities -- How blurred the furze -- Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/The keen for /Art Ó Laoghaire.

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