Synopses & Reviews
These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their essential witness, and not their destroyer.
Synopsis
A new collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets.
Synopsis
Notable Book of 2001. Admirably tough-minded...eloquently expressed.... [Boland] is against thoughtless submission but very much for sacrifices in partnership that result in greater mutual understanding.Boland's loyalty to the plain words that call forth a whole past keeps the peat fires burning decades after they were lit.
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.