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Clasp
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- Book Synopsis
- Clasp is award-winning poet Doireann Nì Ghrìofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and 'Clench', Nì Ghrìofa 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".
- About The Author
- Doireann Nì Ghrìofa is a poet and essayist. She is author, most recently, of the bestselling A Ghost in the Throat, as well as six critically-acclaimed books of poetry - each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include, among others, a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA), the Ostana Prize (Italy), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen's University), the Hartnett Poetry Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781910251027
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dedalus Press, (05 October 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 75
- Weight
- 121 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 4 mm
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