A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet - Softcover

Boland, Eavan

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Synopsis

“Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review

These inspiring essays from the celebrated poet Eavan Boland are both critical and deeply personal, revealing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becoming a woman poet. In this thematic sequel to her classic Object Lessons, Boland traces her own experiences as a woman, wife, and mother and their effect on her poetry, and she looks to a world where she can change the poetic past as well as the present.

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About the Author

Eavan Boland (1944―2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.

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9781857545418: Journey With Two Maps : Anthology

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ISBN 10:  1857545419 ISBN 13:  9781857545418
Publisher: Carcanet Press, 2011
Softcover