Synopses & Reviews
A definitive selection of writingspoetry, prose, interviews, reviews, and criticismby and about Eavan Boland, "Ireland's greatest woman writer" (Booklist).Over the course of ten books of poems spanning four decades, Eavan Boland has changed the landscape of Irish poetry, creating new spaces and a new language. The Critical Companion is an essential resource to the poetry, prose, and critical writing of this acclaimed poet. Jody Allen Randolph, a longtime teacher and interpreter of Boland's work, has gathered a rich collection of literary and critical texts, including a biographical introduction and chronology, introductory surveys of Boland's work, a selection of Boland's poetry and prose writings, interviews from 1987 to 2006, reviews, and critical discussion for each work. Thorough and comprehensive, Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion is an essential guide to a major contemporary poet, illuminating Boland's achievements for students and general readers alike.
Synopsis
These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.
Synopsis
A Best Book: a celebrated collection from "one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century" ().
About the Author
Jody Allen Randolph has taught at University College Dublin; the British Studies at Oxford Programme at St. John's College, Oxford; and Westmont College. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.