Bower (eBook)

Connie Voisine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
80 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-61381-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with her young daughter. The speaker immerses herself in the history of Irish politics-including the sectarian conflict known as The Troubles-and gathers stories of a painful, divisive past from museum exhibits, newspapers, neighbors, friends, local musicians, and cabbies. Quietly meditative, brooding, and heart-wrenching, these poems place intimate moments between mother and daughter alongside images of nationalistic violence and the angers that underlie our daily interactions. A deep dive into sectarianism and forgiveness, this timely and nuanced book examines the many ways we are all implicated in the impulse to "e;protect our own"e; and asks how we manage the histories that divide us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 0-226-61381-X / 022661381X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61381-9 / 9780226613819