The tragic death of Eleanor Marx / Tara Bergin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergin, Tara, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898--Poetry.

Aveling, Eleanor Marx.

Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898.

Fairy tales--Poetry.

Fairy tales.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

87 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2017.

Summary:

Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That's all they wanted.'--cover.

Notes:

"Poetry Book Society recommendation."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-86).

ISBN:

1784103802

9781784103804

OCLC:

962016327