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Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
“Ní Ghríofa is a poet through and through.”
– New York Review of Books
“In the work of the Irish writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, history is amorphous, a living thing that frequently bleeds into or interrupts the lives of those in the present day.”
– The Paris Review
“[Her] poems excel in their consideration of motherhood, particularly its paradoxical losses and gains, separation and unity… long-considered obsessions are explored with tenderness and unflinching curiosity.”
– Poetry Magazine
“Like [Eavan] Boland, Ní Ghríofa constructs a mysterious world for her readers from the matter of ordinary life. The poems… impress upon us that magic and depth can be found in the minutiae of the everyday.”
– Poetry Ireland Review
“Ní Ghríofa is deeply attuned to the gaps, silences and mysteries in women’s lives”
– New York Times
About the Book
In this new North American edition of her poetry, award-winning Irish-language poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa revisits and retranslates poems from her previous collections Dú lasair (2012), Oighear (2017), Lies (2018), and To Star the Dark (2021). “ This is a lunar collection,” Adam Hanna writes in his introduction, “ and its nocturnes partake of the night’ s solaces and solitudes… a lunar world that is gravid with moods and premonitions.”
About the Author
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual Irish writer devoted to exploring how the past makes itself felt in the present. Her book A Ghost in the Throat saw an 18th-century poet haunting a young mother, leading her through visions of blood, milk, lust, and murder. Written on the rooftop of a car-park in Ireland, it went on to be described as “powerful” (New York Times) and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian); the US edition was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. Doireann has also written several critically-acclaimed books of poetry in both Irish and English, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA), the Ostana Prize (Italy), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
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