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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Woods, Vincent (1960-....)
Titre(s) : Leaves of hungry grass [Texte imprimé] : poetry and Ireland's Great hunger / Vincent Woods
Publication : Hamden (Conn.) : Quinnipac university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (51 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm
Collection : Famine folios
Lien à la collection : Famine folios
Comprend : Introduction : hunger's litany ; The cartography of poetry ; Translating blackened
memory ; The Great Hunger as a metaphor ; Digging-a poet's offering ; A loosened
spirit : poetry and diaspora ; Australia : dimonds on a duchess ; After the digging
: a modern American response ; Heartslopes of connection ; The spaces between :
poetry of famine prose ; Writing poems of famine ; A shadow on the hearts : contemporary
writers ; A skein of connection ; Stalks of the lights.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-50)
"Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the
development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century
to the present day. An international landscape of connected experience emerges through
the work of Eavan Boland, Alan Shapiro, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Paul Celan
and many poets in Ireland, the U.S., Germany and Australia. In examining a world of
poetry, the connections and parallels to contemporary famines and migrations become
clear, and the response of Irish poets to famine in other countries is acknowledged.
Vincent Woods shows how the post-Famine diaspora influenced the work of Emily Dickinson
and Walt Whitman; and in presenting new work by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Miriam
de Burca, argues that the creative response to the Irish Famine is ongoing and vital"--Back
cover
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Poetry and Ireland's Great Hunger
Sujet(s) : Poésie -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Poésie -- 20e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Poésie -- 2000-.... -- Thèmes, motifs
Poésie irlandaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Irlande -- 1845-1852 (Grande famine) -- Poésie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780997837445. - ISBN 0997837446 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45224254c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45224254
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