The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx

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Poetic exploration of the tragedy of love and loss.

The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx is a poetic exploration of love, grief, and passion. Tara Bergin's use of folksong, fairytale, and theatrical monologue, combined with her sing-song rhythm and dark humor, make for a compelling and beautiful read. Drawing on the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation, Bergin explores the intensity of love and grief, and the ways in which we can become both ourselves and strangers to those we love most. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in poetry that explores the complexities of the human heart.

  • Forward Prize Nominee for Best Collection (2017)
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The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx

Regular price ₱119.25 Now ₱99.00 Save 17%
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ISBN: 9781784103804
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱845.55
Authors: Tara Bergin
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Date of Publication: 2017-08-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 75 readers)

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A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.  Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert’s heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin’s poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humor, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in ‘Mask’, are both ‘themselves and strangers’. ‘That’s all they wanted.’
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Poetic exploration of the tragedy of love and loss.

The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx is a poetic exploration of love, grief, and passion. Tara Bergin's use of folksong, fairytale, and theatrical monologue, combined with her sing-song rhythm and dark humor, make for a compelling and beautiful read. Drawing on the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation, Bergin explores the intensity of love and grief, and the ways in which we can become both ourselves and strangers to those we love most. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in poetry that explores the complexities of the human heart.

  • Forward Prize Nominee for Best Collection (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.