The Girl Who Married the Reindeer - Hardcover

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930630077 ISBN 13: 9781930630079

Publisher: Wake Forest University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain radically redesigns the language and form of poetic narrative. In poems about journeys to worlds real and metaphorical, she reveals deft crossings of borders, linguistic boundaries, and cultures, from the sepulchre of Lazarus to the web of a spider who makes her own new centre every day. Beginning mid-journey, the poems often arrive at mysterious destinations. Throughout the volume, Ni Chuilleanain displaces the finger posts of narrative which is redefined of a traveler s productive strayings and even self-exiles: I follow the road that follows the lie of the land. "

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Review

"Although Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has done as much as anyone to map out new territories for Irish poetry, her poems...are never happier than when sequestering themselves or seeking out some comfortable hidey-hole away from public view. ...but to the mysteries of her work can be added what is by now an open secret: that she has written some of the most skillfully crafted and rewarding poetry of the past thirty years, a verdict only confirmed by The Girl Who Married the Reindeer."

About the Author

Born in Cork in 1942, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain graduated from University College Cork in 1962, with a BA in English and History, followed by a MA in English in 1964, and she also studied at Oxford University. Ni 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. Since then she has continued to teach an option on John Donne and also contributes to the M.Phil in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture, and to the M.Phils in Literary Translation and Comparative Literature. Ni Chuilleanain edits the literary journal Cyphers with two other poet-editors, including her husband MacDara Woods. She and her husband have a son, Niall. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain is often cited not only as a major poet in the generation after Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, and Richard Murphy, but also as the foremost female poet now writing in Ireland and Great Britain. 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. Her previous volumes include Acts and Monuments (1966), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award; Site of Ambush (1975); The Second Voyage (1977), which included selections from the previous two volumes; The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems (1991); The Brazen Serpent (1995); The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2002); Selected Poems (2009); The Sun-fish (2010), which won the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and The Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (2012), translations from the Romanian poetry of Ileana M?l?ncioiu. With Medbh McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain also co-translated the poems of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill in The Water Horse (2001)."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1930630077
• ISBN 13: 9781930630079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 56