Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook - Poems, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Criticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857549643 ISBN 13: 9781857549645

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2008

Synopsis

Four individuals are haunted in different ways by what they can't forget in this collection where the personal and cultural past is keenly felt. Built around two long, dramatic monologues spoken by English writers, these poems trace the complexities between politics, aesthetics, and desire. These diverse poems move from the barbaric civility of the classical world to the perplexed certainties of the present, often struggling to come to terms with the formalities of love and the intimacies of aggression.

About this title

About the Author

Gregory Woods is a professor of gay and lesbian studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of a number of critical books and poetry collections, including The District Commissioner's Dream, May I Say Nothing, and We Have the Melon.

Review

"I cannot praise [Gregory Woods' poems] too highly . . . At last, a good book of good poetry which takes as its subject a frank and unsentimental homosexuality . . . What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has. I recommend this book to everybody."  —Thom Gunn

"The poems of Gregory Woods fall into a Latinate tradition of poetry with a subject matter which might be described as pagan . . . The subject matter may seem raw but in economy and beauty of expression they have a kind of purity . . . I have read Gregory Woods' poems with real excitement."  —Sir Stephen Spender

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1857549643
• ISBN 13: 9781857549645
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Jody Allen Randolph