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Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance
Gathered from her first five published volumes (not including the 1994 collection, In a Time of Violence), these poems mark the path described in Boland's 1995 memoir Object Lessons: The Life of a Woman Poet in Our Time. Readers of that work will recognize-and relish-the way this collection charts a life's course. Early poems, plumbing Irish legend and history, demonstrate Boland's sense of herself as part of a well-defined tradition of Irish poetry. The next selections show a shift of focus to details and topics closer to home-modern life in Ireland's cities and suburbs, her own relationships, her past and her womanhood-and a surer voice. With 1982's Night Feed, and particularly the long sequence, Domestic Interior, Boland begins to study the pattern of her life as woman, poet and mother. These themes are refined in poems from 1987's The Journey, where the poet, amid "the usual hardcovers, half-finished cups,/ clothes piled up on an old chair," probes "the silences in which are our beginnings,/ in which we have an origin like water."
US hardcover, published by Norton, 1996, an 'as new copy'. Untrimmed US style page block.
This is an 'AS NEW' copy - it may show slight shelfwear and light edgewear from having been held in other bookshops , but is otherwise 'AS NEW AND UNREAD.
