Clasp (Paperback)

Doireann Ni Ghriofa

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Language: English

Published by Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2015

191025102X / 9781910251027

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Paperback. Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann Ni Ghriofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and 'Clench', Ni Ghriofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject matter. The result is by times what one poem calls 'A History in Hearts', among other things an intimate exploration of love, childbirth and motherhood, and simultaneously a place of separation and anxiety. In one poem set in the boys' home in Letterfrack, a place of undeniable terror, we see how, in the name of religion, "The earth holds small skulls like seeds." The final section of the book comprises a single poem, Seven Views of Cork City, which, swooping in and out of personal history, paints a convincing if sometimes unsettling portrait of the poet's adopted city, and of urban life's ubiquitous restraints on "our dream of speed." Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann NA GhrAofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and 'Clench', NA GhrAofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject matter. The result is by times what one poem calls 'A History in Hearts', among other things an intimate exploration of love, childbirth and motherhood, and simultaneously a place of separation and anxiety. In one poem set in the boys' home in Letterfrack, a place of undeniable terror, we see how, in the name of religion, "The earth holds small skulls like seeds". The final section of the book comprises a single poem, Seven Views of Cork City, which, swooping in and out of personal history, paints a convincing if sometimes unsettling portrait of the poet's adopted city, and of urban life's ubiquitous restraints on "our dream of spe Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Clasp (Paperback)
Author
Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Publisher
Dedalus Press, Dublin
Publication year
2015
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
191025102X
ISBN 13
9781910251027

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