Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Woods, Vincent, 1960-

Publication

• Hamden, CT : Quinnipac University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Description

51 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Famine folios

Uniform Title

Famine folio series

Alternative Title

Poetry and Ireland's Great Hunger

Subject

• 1800-2099
• Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
• Famines in literature
• Ireland
• Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
• Poetry
• Poetry, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Poetry, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-50).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780997837445
• 0997837446

LCCN

^^2016497488

OCLC

968913499

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library