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The Mother House
About this book
The Mother House is rich with images of orphans, exiles, migrants, decay, destruction, famine, disaster, the cloistered, the drowned, the marginalized, as well as disappearance and memory, music and loss. The poems speak of histories, in Ireland and elsewhere, as allegories of our age. Yet, the poetic is not offered as a salvo or a salve, for as the poet questions, "We made the long journey // to deliver the gesture, but who has noticed us?" Ní Chuilleanain nevertheless proves that when the mirror is held at the right angle, the past can shed a telling light upon the present, observing with great acumen, "it was like history, held there / in view of another lifetime." In this remarkable volume, art and literature reflect human suffering and survival across many frontiers.
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Table of contents
- Start
- An Imperfect Enclosure
- She Was at the Haymaking
- A Journey
- The Unreconcile
- Love
- Kilmainham
- On the Move
- Resemblances
- The Blind
- Allow Plenty of Time
- The Cat Dinner
- A Map of Convents
- A Roomful of Seicento Frames
- The Small Museum
- Sister Marina
- To the Mother House
- Work
- For James Connolly
- The Light
- Carr's Lane
- Maria Edgeworth in 1847
- The Faces
- The Bookshelves
- Monsters
- The Capture
- Space
- View
- Seaweed
- The Raging Foam
- A Slow March
- Fastnet
- An Informant
- Hofstetter's Serenade
- The Morandi Bridge
- Ag Stánadh Amach/Gazing Out
- An Crann/The Tree
- Acknowledgments