Eavan Boland

As a comprehensive introduction to Eavan Boland's work, this book provides an essential guide to the work of one of the most important and challenging voices in contemporary poetry. Approachable for the general reader but at the same time inviting to the specialist, it draws on original research and archival material as it tracks the emergence of a new poetic voice in a national culture and the compelling narrative of that emergence.

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Poetics of Origin
Beginnings
The Muse Mother
Chapter Two: The Nexus of Influence
Claims of Belonging
The Dour Line
Chapter Three: From Patria to Matria
The First Draft
In Her Own Image
Night Feed
Chapter Four: Out of Myth into History
The Journey
Outside History
The Telling of Stories
Chapter Five: Changing the Past
In a Time of Violence
Object Lessons
The Lost Land
Chapter Six: Exiles in our Own Country
Against Love Poetry
Domestic Violence
Journeys and Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Jody Allen Randolph

Product details

• Authors: Jody Allen Randolph
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2015
• EAN: 9781611487145
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-714-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: Contemporary Irish Writers and
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama