Synopses & Reviews
In , Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as her narrators wait more or less patiently in their 'difficult knowledge' for the healing of their country's wounds" ().
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A collection of poems which offer a curative gift of merciful vision to Ireland. The author's narrators wait more or less patiently in their difficult knowledge for the healing of their country's wounds.
Synopsis
"A poet at the peak of her power . . . one of Ireland's greatest and among the best writing in English anywhere."--
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.