La autora crea unos textos que trascienden al género, trascienden a su entorno y a sus raíces, su poesía se basa, como ella reconoce en "tratar de plasmar la vida que vive en el poema que escribe". Por este motivo, la poesía...
"[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...
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...
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 Eaven Boland's five early volumes of poetry: New Territory, The War Horse, In Her Own Image, Night...
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;...
A collection of poems which offer a curative gift of merciful vision to Ireland. The author's narrators wait more or less patiently in their difficult knowledge for the healing of their country's wounds.
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...
"Concise, learned, revisionary.. should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."â Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry