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A Furnace and the Life of the Dead
At the risk of sounding capricious I want to begin this discussion of ‘the burial of the dead’ in Roy Fisher’sA Furnaceby referring to an ostensibly very different writer—the contemporary American poet Susan Howe. Howe opens her 1990 collectionThe Europe of Trustswith an autobiographical prose piece designed to orient the reader in her work, but which offers a fix on a much wider body of contemporary writing. The piece is entitled ‘there are not leaves enough to crown to cover to crown to cover’. Ostensibly, the title mourns the awful fact of bodies left unburied,
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The statue that moved — and the cousin I never knew
A gathering of nuns stood near the front, leading the singing and the Hail Marys; there were the old-timers with their rosaries, a contingent disgorged from the pubs, and groups just like us, curious locals and their relatives home from England. Over the years, the phenomenon of Irish Marian apparitions (from the Virgin’s appearance at Knock, in 1879, to a slew of more recent examples) has been explained as a response to social instability, an emotional release, or the result of a power struggle between the popular and the institutional church (though the nuns were certainly taking charge that night in Ballinspittle). On March 8, Ireland will hold a referendum on deleting Article 41.2 from the constitution — the one that states that “by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved”. The fact that this gender-based domesticity clause has outlasted the banning of homosexuality (decriminalised in 1993, following a ruling by the European Convention on Human Rights), divorce (legal since 1996), same-sex marriage (since 2015) and even abortion (since 2018) is one sign of what women have been up against.
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