Title A ghost in the throat / Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Publication Info.	Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	326 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	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 tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain" during its era. A kaleidoscopic blend of memoir, autofiction, and literary studies, A Ghost in the Throat moves fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and the people who make it.
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.
Subject	O'Connell, Eileen, approximately 1743-
	Women authors.
	Women -- Ireland -- Biography.
	Self-realization in women.
	Poetry.
	Irish poetry.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
	LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
	Irish poetry. (OCoLC)fst00979051
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
	Self-realization in women. (OCoLC)fst01111914
	Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
Genre/Form	Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Creative nonfiction. (OCoLC)fst01919909
	Experimental fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726602
	Autobiographies.
	Biographies.
	Creative nonfiction.
	Essays.
Other Form:	Online version: Ní Ghríofa, Doireann. Ghost in the throat. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2021 177196412X 9781771964128 (OCoLC)1232484882
ISBN	9781771964111 (softcover)
	1771964111 (softcover)

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