Mark Strand

Eavan Boland

Provides a detailed explanation of the different forms of poetry--sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, etc.--and explains their origin, traces their history, and provides examples for each form. Reprint.

A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

The Making of a Poem

A collection of poems exploring "the unspoken." To paraphrase The Parcel: "There are dying arts and one of them is the way my mother used to make up a parcel. Paper first, mid-brown and coarse, then the scissors, not a glittering let-up, but a dour pair. Ball of twine, flame, sealing wax, melted and spread into a brittle terracotta medal. Names and places, crayon and fountain pen, town underlined once, country twice. It's ready for the post."

In a Time of Violence: Poems

An Irish poet with an international following unites personal history with national legend in a collection of powerful poems set in a ghostly terrain somewhere between earthly existence and the land of dreams. Reprint.

The Lost Land

A collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets.

Against Love Poetry

Alice Oswald

“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New Yorker In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer’s glance. The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer’s level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.

Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

Acclaimed poet Eavan Boland has been praised for her "edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history" (J. D. McClatchy)--all on display in The Historians. Here Boland returns to her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased, stories of women's lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past. Two women burning letters in a back garden. A poet who died too young. A mother's parable to her daughter. These narratives cling to the future through memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history.

Poems

The Historians

The author recounts her life growing up in Ireland, describes the attitudes toward women and poets, and discusses her career as a writer

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

A poet's Dublin

Mary O'Malley

Paula Meehan

Three Irish Poets

becoming a woman poet

A journey with two maps

Presents the author's poems on Irish landscapes and families, touching on subjects ranging from the erotic to the political.

Domestic Violence

The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection consider questions of inheritance and identity, of what is handed down and what is lost. Boland's poems are acts of preservation: they are aware of the significance of objects, memories, words, in keeping alive what we would otherwise lose / without thinking'. At the same time, they are a holding to account, addressing the damage wrought by that other inheritance, the art of empire', the business ... of colony'. In the title sequence, Boland seeks to restore voice and place to those who, like her grandmother, lived and died outside history', skilled in ... silence'.

A Woman Without a Country

A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition. Boland's discussion is both critical and deeply personal, an account of her development as a poet that traces her experiences as a woman, wife and mother in the light of influences such as Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath. Boland considers the ways in which influences themselves may be changed as a tradition is remade. In the final part of the book, Letter to a Young Woman Poet', she addresses an unseen poet of the future who will redraw the maps once more, remaking the past and the present.

Becoming a Woman Poet

A Journey With Two Maps

A new volume of works by the author of An Origin Like Water blends chronologically arranged material from subsequent collections with key poems from her early years, in an anthology that offers insight into the author's use of critical dialogue to free herself from conventions and stereotypes.

New Collected Poems

John Hollander

A collection of English and American poems for memorization includes the works of Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, and Walt Whitman

100 Best Poems to Memorize

Committed to Memory

The War Horse

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Medbh McGuckian

Wake Forest University Press

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

This groundbreaking anthology includes poetry from Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Kerry Hardie, and Moya Cannon.

The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1967-2000

Else Lasker-Schüler

Eight poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, translated by Eavan Boland, and a major essay by the translator on the life and times of the author. The poems are excerpted from Lasker-Schüler's 1943 collection, My Blue Piano (Mein Blaues Klavier), which she wrote while living in exile in Jerusalem after fleeing Nazi Germany.

My Blue Piano

In Her Own Image

"Collected Poems" includes work from Eavan Boland's early collections "New Territory", "The War Horse" and "In Her Own Image", as well as from her four Carcanet volumes.

Eavan Boland

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