Durante i suoi quasi sessant’anni di carriera, l’acclamata poeta Eavan Boland è diventata nota per la sua squisita capacità di intrecciare mito, storia e vita quotidiana di una donna comune, in una poesia affascinante. Voce essenziale sia nella letteratura femminista che in quella irlandese, elogiata per la sua “precisione tagliente” e per la “straordinaria simpatia e calore umano” (J.D. McClatchy). Il suo ultimo volume, The Historians, è il culmine dei suoi temi distintivi, ed es...

“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New YorkerIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unf...

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland’s early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women’s writ...

“Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThese inspiring essays from the celebrated poet Eavan Boland are both critical and deeply personal, revealing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becoming a woman poet. In this thematic sequel to her classic Object Lessons, Boland traces her own experiences as a woman, wife, and mother and their effect on her ...

A landmark volume of essays from “Ireland’s leading feminist poet” (New York Times Book Review) that celebrates a transformative vision of womanhood, nation, and poetry.Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey through the contours of life as a mother, daughter, and citizen. This generous and wise volu...

In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work.Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world.This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century.Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both femini...

"Readers of this work will recognize and relish the way this collection charts a life's course."--Publishers WeeklyHere, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. Included in this volume is the work from Eavan Boland's five early volumes of poetry: New Territory, The War Horse, In Her Own Image, Night Feed, and The Journey.The poems from Bola...

An essential volume by one of our most esteemed poets."[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention." —David Walker, Field

**Winner of the 2020 Costa Poetry AwardA forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century.**Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her "edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling ...

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers – Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott – articulate their poetics and assert their place within the Western literary canon by means of receptions of this motif from Graeco-Roman literature. This study examines three key texts published between 1985 and 1990, exploring how these writers – an Irish poet, an African-American novelist and a C...