Eavan Boland, Author . Norton $21 (64p) ISBN 978-0-393-02042-7
Most recently in The Lost Land
and most univocally in In a Time of Violence
(1994), Boland has long won admiration for verse that combines Irish postcolonial experience and Irish politics with an outspoken feminism. Her latest collection seeks at...
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Eavan Boland, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-393-31601-8
Poems from the Lannan Award winner's first five volumes (June)
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Eavan Boland, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (67p) ISBN 978-0-393-04663-2
In this, her ninth book of poems, Boland continues to pursue the themes she has made her own, nicely summarized in the last line of the title poem: ""Ireland. Absence. Daughter."" As a woman writing in and about a history-obsessed literary tradition,
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Eavan Boland, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-393-02898-0
With this volume Boland, an Irish poet, establishes herself as an important voice in contemporary poetry. Through close attention to the specific details of women's domestic lives, she transcends minutiae and gives shape to the larger emotions and...
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Eavan Boland, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (70p) ISBN 978-0-393-03617-6
Boland follows her previous collection, Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 , by moving inside it with poems that plumb her individual history and that of Ireland. Arranged in three sections, the poetry describes an arc. The first poems...
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Eavan Boland, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03852-1
Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994 collection, In a Time of Violence), these poems mark the path described in Boland's 1995 memoir Object Lessons: The Life of a Woman Poet in Our Time. Readers of that work will...
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Eavan Boland, Author . Norton $23.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-393-06241-0
Vivid and passionate, if at times repetitive, Boland's 10th book of verse returns to familiar subjects: Irish landscapes, seascapes and townscapes, erotic passion and persistent anger between men and women, households that carry the weight of an
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Eavan Boland, Author . Norton $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-06579-4
Boland’s resilient braid of outspoken feminism with Irish identity has given her a following on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is the recent Boland whose rapid verse celebrates women’s courage and women’s work, both public (severa
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Eavan Boland. Norton, $24.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-393-24444-1
“What do we grieve for/ when we leave a country?” inquires Boland (Domestic Violence), the Irish poet, anthologist, and Stanford professor, as she follows the lives of her mother and grandmother through the central lyric sequence in this compact...
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Eavan Boland, edited by Jody Allen Randolph. Norton, $24.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-324-07428-1
This potent posthumous anthology brings together prose pieces by Irish poet Boland (The Historians), who died in 2020 at age 75, largely focused on the plight of women poets. In one 2011 piece, Boland discusses Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett...
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Eavan Boland. Norton, $26.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-324-00687-9
Boland (A Woman Without a Country), who died in April 2020 at the age of 75, showed a lifelong commitment to illustrating the lives of women in poetry and worked to correct historical omissions and readings. It is apt, then, that in this stunning...
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