The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx [electronic resource]
Tara Bergin2017
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Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
Features the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers'
Week Irish Poem of the Year Award
Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and
the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The
Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and
theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic
consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx
(daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert's
Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways,
died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love,
intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dar...
Main title:
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx [electronic resource] / Tara Bergin
Author:
Tara Bergin, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (88 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784103811
Language:
English
BRN:
435403
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |