The Map of the World
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In The Map of the World, Eil an N Chuillean in continues her vital work " to hold in view / history's patched lining, the sewing." Within this patchwork, there are pilgrimages to holy wells, bishops and bookbinders, and poems in conversation with writers and artists, from Andrew Marvell, Milton, and Joyce to Irish painter Nano Reid and stained-glass artist Helen Moloney. There are also deft translations, as N Chuillean in writes Shakespeare's Caliban into Irish alongside the Romanian poet Ileana Malancioiu. Other poems evoke a darker urgency of war, displacement, and ecological precarity. Yet, perhaps the most compelling moments are uncovered in the collection's intimate elegies, from " Muriel Gifford After Her Fever" to " The Ash-tree at My Window," in which there is " No need to make sense" of loss, only a sublime petition: " Please, / hide me in summer." In this volume, the first since her Collected Poems (2021), we find a poet writing " both from the uncharted depths of grief and at the height of her powers" (The Irish Times).
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1943667179
ISBN13:9781943667178
Release Date:October 2025
Publisher:Wake Forest University Press
Length:56 Pages
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