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Little Witness
Connie Roberts
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Description for Little Witness
paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 160.
This deeply moving debut collection is where poetry and history meet. Connie Roberts recounts her childhood in one of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools, coming to terms with this experience and examining the roles played by those around her. A poetic bildungsroman, we follow her life from orphanage to adulthood and work where she looks back without sentimentality and profound brutality.
This deeply moving debut collection is where poetry and history meet. Connie Roberts recounts her childhood in one of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools, coming to terms with this experience and examining the roles played by those around her. A poetic bildungsroman, we follow her life from orphanage to adulthood and work where she looks back without sentimentality and profound brutality.
Product Details
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Galway, Ireland
ISBN
9781851321155
SKU
9781851321155
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Reviews for Little Witness
Roberts, through her soaring language and big-hearted vision, achieves poetic art. This is the poetry of rock-hard experience. It will skin your soul. - Dan Barry, author of Pull Me Up: A Memoir