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  <title><![CDATA[Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time]]></title>
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  <default-description>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.&lt;br /&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1995</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eavan Boland]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed May 14 11:37:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funnily enough, I don't particularly care for several of the poems that Boland is most famous for. However, this is one of those rare cases where the quotes on the outside of the book from reviewers are spot on...in particular, the one that mentioned &quot;its serpentine strategy of memoir lifted in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22243278">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 21 21:06:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a luminous book about women poets.  I liken it to &quot;The Artist as a Young Man&quot; and also love her poetry.  The only drawback is that you need to be very familiar with Irish history.  Nation, heritage, womanhood, and poetry is seamlessly interweaved and there is often no handy gloss o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50019864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting for its first person perspective and historical importance (women finding their voice in a male-dominated poetry market), but not a page-turner.  I wish the prose was more gripping.  I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boland's insight and reflection provides the basis for my strongest beliefs about the role of writing in society and the role of a female poet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's doing something to me.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A poets biographical journey of how she came to find her poetic voice within the context of her own experiences as a woman, being Irish, an immigrant, and an object within the male Irish poetic tradition.<br/><br/>Even non-poets who enjoy biography will find her perspectives intriguing as we all s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36191515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;But already I knew--from a few mysterious moments of writing--something about form. Already I sensed that real form--the sort that made time turn and wander when you read a poem--came from a powerful meeting between a hidden life and a hidden chance in language. If they found each other, then ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14454335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eavan Boland spoke my mind and my feelings as she described the inner struggles of her two paths in life.  I began this book sitting in a Irish lit class, and kept looking around the room to see if others felt that shocking sense of connection.  Ever since that day, I am a huge Eavan Boland fan.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A stunning look at the experience of an Irish woman poet that simultaneously examines the human quest for identity, the complications of nationhood, and the limits of language.  One of those life-changing books for me...read at exactly the right moment.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is more nonfiction (craft theory) than memoir, but it reads like a poem.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>senior thesis]]></body>
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