To Star the Dark
To Star the Dark Do our passions control us or us them? Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which - like the starlings - sings, at…
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To Star the Dark
Do our passions control us or us them? Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which - like the starlings - sings, at once, both past and present. These poems find themselves asking such questions in hospitals, in cellars, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, inside our screens and beyond them.
An astrologer of the body, its endurance and its vulnerability, N Ghr ofa is a poet of daring skill. "Looking into the dark sky of history, Doireann N Ghr ofa calls up an illuminating fire, a night constellated into images of passion and destruction. Lyrical, searching and enchanted, To Star the Dark is a blazing, brave collection." - Se n Hewitt "Like Eavan] Boland, N Ghr ofa constructs a mysterious world for her readers from the matter of ordinary life.
The poems of this collection