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  <title><![CDATA[Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eavan Boland]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boland does beautiful work making the suburban landscape into a comfortable, domestic space. It doesn't feel like a place where people sell out (maybe that's what Charles Wright is trying to write?), but instead a place where one settles. And for this speaker, settling, in both the positively and ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38870276">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 05 09:31:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Upon reflecting on Ms. Boland's poems, an old proverb came into my mind: &quot;The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.&quot;  It seems in her ambitious goal to re-tell the history of her country and her country's emigrants, Boland knew that to get the attention and recognition sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17080621">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 16:05:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[poetry by Eavan Boland, about the history of silences. Daily life and activities reported on by a contemporary woman. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 18:34:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the quilting bits, but it often fails to make me freak out with joy.]]></body>
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    <review id="6347769">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 17 15:44:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 02 09:56:17 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing collection of poetry.  I started it on my trip to Ireland back in college and picked it up again a couple months ago.  Boland has a quietly observant voice and uses many references to mythology and Irish culture without getting too obscure.  She writes a lot about memory, nature, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6347769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72942686">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a class at Notre Dame and really enjoyed it. The book chronicles &quot;everyday&quot; people who have contributed to the fabric of Ireland over the past century or so. I love the message - that these people are &quot;outside&quot; history because they are not famous or powerful like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6670186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14903284">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[another one of my favorite poetry collections.  we studied her a lot in my women's literature class in york, and i became a big fan.  she writes about personal experiences in a way that makes them very outside what know, but also really relatable...? i don't know if i explained that well; you will h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14903284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51133876">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 25 12:34:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strong Irish femal poet - wonderful!]]></body>
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    <review id="50013123">
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    <name><![CDATA[Druek]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've taught this to high school seniors with great success. ]]></body>
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    <review id="10884548">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 15:28:03 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>senior thesis]]></body>
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    <review id="4321046">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[from my skye.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="14486075">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic.]]></body>
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