Poem
The Stone Word
| Title | The Stone Word |
|---|---|
| Author | Medbh McGuckian |
Instances of Publication
A published appearance of this poem.
| Collection/Anthology | Year of Publication | Medium | View Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaris Moor | 2015 | Print Collection | View Details |
Publication Instance Details #3368
Collection/Anthology Details
| Collection/Anthology | Blaris Moor |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2015 |
| Publisher | The Gallery Press (Ireland) |
| Page Number(s) | 14 |
Publication Overview
| Translation | Is Multilingual | Explicit Irish Context? | Ekphrasis | Has Paratext? | Reference to News, Media or Technology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Details
| Human Rights Issues | |
|---|---|
| War / Genocide Referenced | |
| Languages | |
| Genre | Short Lyric |
| Medium | Print Collection |
| Notes | This poem does not explicitly address the Holocaust, although there is an intimation of restricted freedom for the first-person speaker and a sense of habitual alarm in a unnamed city. Shane Alcobia-Murphy has identified two important intertexts: 'Cities Reimagining the Urban' by Ash Amin and 'Beyond the Limit Experience' by Gary D. Mole. The latter is a monograph on French witness-poetry written in the concentration camps. Like other poems by McGuckian in this dataset, eye-witness accounts from other sources are incorporated into her poems. This is a self-reflexive technique that underscores the challenges of bearing witness to atrocities, in this case the Holocaust. See Shane Alcobia-Murphy, 'Living so Far from Words', RISE 1.1 (2016). |
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