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Making of a Poem
A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Häftad, 2001
238 kr
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Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their …
All Strangers Here
100 Years of Personal Writing from the Irish Foreign Service
Av Eavan Boland, Siobhan Campbell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
501 kr
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In 1919, the fledgling Irish State sent envoys out into the world to represent the Irish people and assert our independent voice. Since then, Irish diplomats and their families have been inspired to give creative voice to their experiences. The arts of diplomacy and of writing are close companions …
After Every War
Twentieth-Century Women Poets
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2006
273 kr
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They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. …
Poet's Dublin
Av Eavan Boland
Inbunden, 2016
301 kr
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Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet’s Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and …
Outside History
Selected Poems, 1980-1990
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2001
263 kr
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"[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, …
In a Time of Violence
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 1995
238 kr
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This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."
Object Lessons
The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 1996
296 kr
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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.
Origin Like Water
Collected Poems 1957-1987
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 1997
288 kr
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Here, 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 Boland's …
Lost Land
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 1999
222 kr
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In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as her narrators wait more or less patiently …
Against Love Poetry
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2003
222 kr
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These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their essential witness, and not their destroyer. A …
Eavan Boland
A Critical Companion
Av Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph
Häftad, 2008
329 kr
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These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.
Making of a Sonnet
A Norton Anthology
Av Eavan Boland, Edward Hirsch
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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This illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes, paying particular attention to how individual poets—from Shakespeare to Strand—have claimed these …
New Collected Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2009
408 kr
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An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987 confirmed Eavan Boland’s place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems now brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding material from her subsequent volumes and filling out key poems from the early years. Following the chronology …
Journey with Two Maps
Becoming a Woman Poet
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2012
181 kr
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These 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 …
Woman Without a Country
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2016
196 kr
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Eavan Boland is considered “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a Country, looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an individual. …
Outside History
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 1997
126 kr
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Outside History was Eavan Boland's first collection of new poems since The Journey (1987). Here she explores private themes, but in ways which open out on the wider public sphere.Often the poems arise from the place in which womanhood and nationhood meet, a place that Irish history sometimes …
Historians
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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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 …
Historians
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2020
142 kr
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Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020A Guardian Book of the Year 2020A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020An Irish Times Book of the Year 2020 A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth …
Citizen Poet
New and Selected Essays
Av Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph
Häftad, 2024
312 kr
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At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems and prose. Together they transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable influence throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major essayist, whose potent non-fiction work challenged and changed Irish culture and …
New Selected Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2013
166 kr
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New Selected Poems includes the key poems from Eavan Boland’s remarkable half century of writing. It began with 23 Poems in 1962 and it has continued through more than a dozen collections, each finding new dimensions in language, history and in the body subject to passion and to time. She is …
Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin
Av Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, place and memory, the book creates a unique …
New Collected Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Eavan Boland's first Collected Poems confirmed her place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001) and reproducing all her earlier collections in their entirety, together with two key …
Domestic Violence
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2008
141 kr
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These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.
Historians
Poems
Av Eavan Boland
Inbunden, 2020
301 kr
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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 …
Woman Without a Country
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2014
127 kr
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The poems in Eavan Boland’s new collection consider questions of inheritance and identity, of what is handed down and what is lost. Boland's poems are acts of preservation: they are aware of the significance of objects, memories, words, in keeping alive what we would otherwise 'lose / without …
Journey with Two Maps
Becoming a Woman Poet
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2011
214 kr
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A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means to be a woman poet, finding her own …
Three Irish Poets
Av Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
166 kr
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Poetry Book Society Special CommendationIn this radical anthology the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space to speak and to sing.The anthology makes an essential selection of some forty pages …
Object Lessons
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2006
176 kr
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'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be: in turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully becomes a sort of cadence.'In Object Lessons …
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 121
Av Eavan Boland
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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Eavan Boland's first issue as editor of Poetry Ireland Review aims to encourage a conversation about poetry which is 'noisy and fractious certainly ... but a conversation nevertheless that can be thrilling in its reach and commitment'. There are new poems from Thomas McCarthy, Jean Bleakney, Wendy …
