A Poet's Dublin - Hardcover

Boland, Eavan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393285367 ISBN 13: 9780393285369

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

Juxtaposing verse and image, A Poet’s Dublin is a study of origin and influence from “a major Irish poet” (Edward Hirsch).

Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet’s Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and raised her children to the inner-city bombing of 1974, and include such signature poems as “The Pomegranate,” “The War Horse,” and “Anna Liffey.” Above all, these poems weave together the story of a self and a city―private, political, and bound by history. The poems are supported by photographs of the city at all times and in all seasons: from dawn on the river Liffey, which flows through Dublin, to twilight up in the Dublin foothills. 45 photographs

About this title

About the Author:

Eavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lives in Stanford, California, and Dublin, Ireland.

Review:

“For Boland, one feels poetry has to be honorable and natural, though at times as terrifying as giving birth alone in the open meadow, and that it is also made of blood and the guilt of being human.”
- Yusef Komunyakaa

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393285367
• ISBN 13: 9780393285369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176