Medbh Mcguckian

Broschiertes Buch

The Thankless Paths to Freedom

Beschreibung

Has there been a more thankless path in recent history than the one we are on now? Medbh McGuckian's newest volume asks this question, conceived in the years between the centenary anniversaries of the 1916 Rising and the establishment of the Northern Irish State in 1921. Poems are preoccupied with imprisonment, from the County Down Maze Prison to the sentencing of revolutionary nationalist Constance Markievicz, as violence mingles with a dreamlike glow: " The unintended beauty of this map / of bomb damage." McGuckian's familiar angels flutter at the edges of poems alongside images of Mars and the earth-like alternate universe of Kepler452b. An invisible illness haunts many of the poems-- " One longs to go to a hospital and have something / cut out." Written between personal and public histories, based in both borrowings and startling associations, McGuckian continues to craft a singular lyric subjectivity open to the multiplicity of experience: When I was in my right mind my body was doing its best without me-- when I say ' talking to myself' I mean there are two of me. -- From " The Plume Trade"

Autor

Medbh McGuckian lives with her family in Belfast, where she was born, raised, and educated. She graduated from Queen's University Belfast and was the first woman to be named writer-in-residence there. She is the author of nearly twenty individual volumes of poetry, as well as two Selected Poems (1997, 2015). Her many awards include the Eric Gregory Award, the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Denis Devlin Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the Forward Prize for Best Poem. Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950, where she now lives with her husband and four children. She received both a BA and MA from Queen's University, where, alongside Paul Muldoon, she studied under Seamus Heaney. In 1985, she returned to Queen's as the university's first female writer-in-residence. She has also held residencies at the University of Ulster and Trinity College, Dublin, as well as universities in America. Medbh McGuckian published her first two chapbooks in 1980 before her first full-length collection, The Flower Master (1982), won the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an award from the Ireland Arts Council.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wake Forest University Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781943667123
• ISBN-10: 1943667128
• Artikelnr.: 72091393