Pharaoh's Daughter

by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Book Overview

Pharaoh's Daughter, published in Ireland by Gallery Press in 1990, contains forty-five poems in Irish by Nuala N Dhomhnaill with translations by thirteen distinguished poets from Ireland. In this revised form, it appears for the first time in North America as a companion volume to The Astrakhan Cloak, new poems by Nuala N Dhomhnaill with translations by Paul Muldoon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390535
• ISBN13: 9780916390532
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"D'fhag si na maidi ramha agam."

I cannot reccomend Ni Dhomhnaill's work highly enough. She is continuing in the tradition established by women like Eavan Boland, Peig Sayers, and Medbh McGuckian--teaching the world that Irish women can write with a beauty and an intensity that must not--and cannot--be overshadowed by their male colleagues. I first read Ni Dhomhnaill in a class in grad school, and have continued to read her work constantly. Her poems are well grounded in the technique of true poetry, and her gift for her native Irish shines through each work. For those readers who haven't had the luxury to learn Irish, the poems in her volumes are translated by some of the most talented Irish poets alive--Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, and Paul Durcan have all lent a hand in the translations. The work itself is steeped in Irish mythology, which Ni Dhomhnaill understands and alludes to deftly, but without overpowering sentimentality. Some shining examples of her talent that appear in the volume are "The Language Issue," "Blodewedd," "Aubade," and "Island." Ni Dhomhnaill is sure to prove herself one of the great writers of the era.