A Ghost in the Throat
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When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlin Dubh's life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet's girlhood and old age, her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires, the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Ni Ghriofa sets out to discover Eibhlin Dubh's erased life-and in doing so, discovers her own. Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession, a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women, a meditation on motherhood and on translation, and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's.
Notes
Ghríofa, D. N., & Mcsweeney, S. (2021). A Ghost in the Throat. Unabridged. [United States], HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ghríofa, Doireann Ní and Siobhán, Mcsweeney. 2021. A Ghost in the Throat. [United States], HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ghríofa, Doireann Ní and Siobhán, Mcsweeney, A Ghost in the Throat. [United States], HighBridge, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ghríofa, Doireann Ní, and Siobhán Mcsweeney. A Ghost in the Throat. Unabridged. [United States], HighBridge, 2021.
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