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New Collected Poems
by
Eavan Boland
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 of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of developmen...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
March 3rd 2008
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 2005)
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Combining eleven of Eavan Boland’s books, New Collected Poems presents readers with her finest work. Boland, a contemporary Irish poet, guides readers across thirty years of her work in this 307 page tome. During the journey, one begins to traverse tradition, grasp snippets of myth, and peer inside the life of this extraordinary woman.
Most of Boland’s poems are written in traditional forms, which give her work a smooth consistency. The readers has a map of what to expect in terms of so...more
Most of Boland’s poems are written in traditional forms, which give her work a smooth consistency. The readers has a map of what to expect in terms of so...more
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To me "In a Time of Violence" most successfully achieves the goals Boland sets for herself in "Object Lessons."
A wonderful contempory female Irish Poet. If you haven't read any of her work I highly recommend her new and collected poems which contain poems from her various other books. She is the type of poet that once you read her work, you want to tell the world about her.
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