Leaves of hungry grass : poetry and Ireland's Great Hunger /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Woods, Vincent, 1960- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hamden, Connecticut : Quinnipac University Press, [2016]
Series:	Famine folio series.
Subjects:	Famines in literature. Poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. Poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Poetry > 21st century > History and criticism. Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.

Table of Contents:

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.