A ghost in the throat / Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ní Ghríofa, Doireann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Women authors.

Women--Ireland--Biography.

Women.

Ireland.

Self-realization in women.

Irish poetry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Experimental fiction.

Creative nonfiction.

Essays.

Physical Description:

326 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020]

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Female Text

2. A Liquid Echo

3. To Breathe Elsewhere

4. In the milking parlour

5. An Unscientific mishmash

6. The Dissection room

7. Cold Lips to cold lips

8. oubliette

9. Blood in mud

10. Two Roads, each blurred

11. blot. blot.

12. Omen

of planes and starlings

13. To Splinter the surface

14. now, then

15. A Sequence of shadows

16. Wild Bees and their fizzy curiosities

17. How Blurred the furze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Ní Ghríofa, Doireann. Ghost in the throat.

ISBN:

1771964111

9781771964111

OCLC:

1225976656