A ghost in the throat /

In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ní Ghríofa, Doireann (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	O'Connell, Eileen, > approximately 1743- Poetry. Women authors. Women > Ireland > Biography. Self-realization in women. Irish poetry. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.

Table of Contents:

A female text
A liquid echo
To breathe elsewhere
In the milking parlour
An unscientific mishmash
The dissection room
Cold lips to cold lips
Oubliette
Blood in mud
Two roads, each blurred
Blot. Blot.
Omen
of planes and starlings
To splinter the surface
Now, then
A sequence of shadows
Wild bees and their fizzy curiosities
How blurred the furze
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/The keen for /Art Ó Laoghaire.