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A Woman Without a Country: Poems
Contributor(s): Boland, Eavan (Author)
ISBN: 0393352943     ISBN-13: 9780393352948
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
Eavan Boland is considered "one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century" by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a Country, looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an individual. Themes of mother, daughter, and generation echo throughout these extraordinary poems, as they examine how--even without country or settled identity--a legacy of love can endure.

From "Talking to my Daughter Late at Night"

We have a tray, a pot of tea, a scone.
This is the hour
When one thing pours itself into another:
The gable of our house stored in shadow.
A spring planet bending ice
Into an absolute of light.
Your childhood ended years ago. There is
No path back to it.


Contributor Bio(s): Boland, Eavan: - 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.