(P/B) NEW COLLECTED POEMS

Παρουσίαση

An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967-1987 (1996) confirmed Eavan Boland's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry. New Collected Poems 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 of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now incremental, now momentous. Boland's work traces a measured process of emancipation from conventions and stereotypes, writing in a space she has cleared not by violent rejection, but by dialogue, critical engagement, and patient experimentation with form, theme, and language. (From the publisher)

"While still attuned to the silences of the past, Eavan Boland challenges us to accept the consequences of female mastery, as she explores ways of writing about purpose and continuity, success and certainty." (Times Literary Supplement)
"The finest evidence ever assembled of the escape from the grip of a tradition. If the procedure of Art is to resist the real while conferring unity upon it, then Eavan Boland, in resisting male histories, has conferred a new meaning upon the phrase 'Irish poetry.' (Irish Times)
"Eavan Boland lives in a different world, one from which she can see not only 'the Dublin mountains,' but a looming poetic tradition and the wastes of European history." (New York Times Book Review)

Περιεχόμενα

Author's note
From 23 Poems (1962)
New Territory (1967)
From "Femininity and Freedom" (1971)
The War Horse (1975)
In her own image (1980)
Night Feed (1982)
The Journey (1987)
Outside History (1990)
Object lessons
Outside history: A sequence
Distances
In a Time of Violence (1994)
The Singers
Writing in a time of violence: A sequence
Legends
Anna Liffley
The Lost Land (1998)
Colony
The lost land
Against Love Poetry (2001)
Marriage
Code
Index of first lines
Index of titles