The Mother House by Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean

The Mother House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930630925)

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The Mother House by Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean

The Mother House

$13.95
The Mother House by Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean

The Mother House

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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The Mother House is rich with images of orphans, exiles, migrants, decay, destruction, famine, disaster, the cloistered, the drowned, the marginalized, as well as disappearance and memory, music and loss. The poems speak of histories, in Ireland and elsewhere, as allegories of our age. Yet, the poetic is not offered as a salvo or a salve, for as the poet questions, "We made the long journey // to deliver the gesture, but who has noticed us?" N Chuilleanain nevertheless proves that when the mirror is held at the right angle, the past can shed a telling light upon the present, observing with great acumen, "it was like history, held there / in view of another lifetime." In this remarkable volume, art and literature reflect human suffering and survival across many frontiers.

Author: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
ISBN-10: 1930630921
ISBN-13: 9781930630925
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2020
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.00w x 0.30d

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Publishers Weekly 04/20/2020
By Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
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Eilean Ní Chuilleanain was Associate Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Letters), and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin until her retirement in 2011. She co-edits the literary journal Cyphers. In 1992, she was awarded the prestigious O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award by The Irish American Cultural Institute. Her most recent volume, The Boys of Bluehill (2015), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has written eight volumes of poetry.

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