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Without warning, an Englishman's hand cups Aoife McGuire's mouth, silencing her before the chance to utter a word. So begins the verse-story of Aoife McGuire, a midwife in Ireland 1650, kidnapped by Oliver Cromwell's men, and sent into the New World. The next years of her life trace the harrowing trajectory of many others stolen for the benefits of nationalism and economic superiority. Their voices are finally heard in the poetic imagery of one young woman's unconscionable capture and the bravery-the misneach-needed to survive.

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"In Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement, and Colonialism, D. Walsh Gilbert contextualizes a narrative about the residues of British colonization. The verse-story structure allows a reader to engage with harsh historical truths through the medium of poetry by creating the fictional narrative about a young Irish midwife, Aoife McGuire, who is abducted in Ireland in 1650 and forced to work on a plantation on the island of Montserrat and then later in Colonial New England. Gilbert could have written in prose form, but narrative poetry provides deeper layers and points of context. She provides a poetic scope of awareness about Irish indentured servitude with Aoife serving as the representative figure of ""an everlasting sting"" as written in the final poem of the collection, for the names of the thousands of people lost to history. -Sean Frederick Forbes, author of Providencia: a book of poems"

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D. Walsh Gilbert is a dual citizen of the United States of America and Ireland. She is the author of eight poetry collections. Gilbert serves on the board of the Riverwood Poetry Series and as co-editor of the Connecticut River Review, published by the Connecticut Poetry Society.

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