Download heretic a memoir9/26/2023 And What Is My Heart is ostensibly a reworking of the anonymous Irish poem The Mothers’ Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents, inspired, of course, by the biblical tale. Often, I bring about this intersection myself by recontextualizing stories, images, poems and anything else I can find to service my lines.įor example, my new book Let the Dead (Banshee Press, 2023) begins with a poem about the massacre (officially, disappearance) of 43 student teachers from the training school at Ayotzinapa in southern Mexico. It may, therefore, come as little surprise to learn that examining ways in which these two countries intersect has been an ongoing area of concern for me in my work. I am an Irish poet who has spent much (if not most) of my adult life living and working in Mexico.
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