Collected Poems | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Softcover

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930630964 ISBN 13: 9781930630963

Publisher: Wake Forest University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Collected Poems gathers nine collections of poetry, from Acts and Monuments (1972) to The Mother House (2020), as well as new poems and translations. Her poetry is scrupulously controlled but also continuously startling, using the language of history, religion, landscape, and myth. Travelers, pilgrims, and women—especially the veiled subject of the nun—remind us of our deepest inner sanctum with its litany of spiritual truths, human fears, and needs. These images also catalogue the importance of the ordinary and the domestic as metaphors for human experiences and emotions. Ní Chuilleanáin allows those who have been silenced by history to surface in art as surreal but living presences. It is now unquestionably apparent that she is one the major poets in contemporary Ireland.

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About the Author

Born in Cork in 1942, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, an Irish poet, graduated from University College Cork in 1962, with a BA in English and History, followed by a MA in English in 1964, and she also studied at Oxford University. Ní Chuilleanáin was Associate Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Letters), and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin until her retirement in 2011. From 2016-2019 she also served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930630964
• ISBN 13: 9781930630963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424