Synopses & Reviews
Published to celebrate the 70th birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland’s best-known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, place and memory, the book creates a unique portrait of the city. This book also includes an introduction by Jody Allen Randolph and a conversation between Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan in which the two poets reflect on their shared city and the central role it has played in their lives and in their work.
Synopsis
This beautifully designed book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city.
About the Author
Eavan Boland is the Mabury Knapp Professor in the humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of Code, The Journey and Other Poems, A Journey with Two Maps, New Selected Poems, and Night Feed. Paula Meehan is a poet who published five previous collections of poetry and received many awards for her work including the Denis Devlin Award of the Irish Arts Council for Dharmakaya.