Research Catalog

Title

Eavan Boland : a sourcebook : poetry, prose, interviews, reviews and criticism / selected and edited by Jody Allen Randolph.

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boland, Eavan
• Randolph, Jody Allen.

Description

xxii, 258 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This sourcebook combines all the essential poems with key extracts from Eavan Boland's prose works, including the classic 'Object Lessons' from 1995.

Subject

Boland, Eavan > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

• manuals (instructional materials)
• handbooks.
• Handbooks and manuals
• Guides et manuels.
• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Bibliographie.
• Interview.
• Quelle.

Note

• Includes biographical introduction and chronology, selection of Boland's poetry and writings, interviews from 1987-2006, reviews and critical discussions of Boland's works, a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-248) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Athene's song -- From the painting back from market by Chardin -- war horse -- Child of our time -- Anorexic -- Domestic interior -- Degas's laundresses -- Night feed -- Mise eire -- emigrant Irish -- journey -- black lace fan my mother gave me -- Outside history -- What we lost -- That the science of cartography is limited -- Love -- pomegranate -- singers -- This moment -- Anna Liffey -- Heroic -- blossom -- Thanked be fortune -- Is it still the same -- Quarantine -- Irish poetry -- Domestic violence -- elegy for my mother in which she scarcely appears -- Amber -- From "Author's preface" object lessons -- From "Daughter" -- From "In search of a nation" -- From "In search of a language" -- From "Turning away" -- From "Outside history" -- From "Religion and poetry" -- From "The Irish woman poet : her place in Irish literature" -- From "Letter to a young woman poet" -- From "Subject matters" -- From "Domestic violence" -- "The weasel's tooth" -- "Holles Street" -- About "this moment" -- "A question" -- interview with Eavan Boland / Jody Allen Randolph -- Q & A with Eavan Boland / Deborah Tall -- interview with Eavan Boland / Marilyn Reizbaum -- voice of Eavan Boland / Jan Garden Castro -- Where poetry begins / Elizabeth Schmidt -- Eavan Boland : an interview / Margaret Mills Harper -- Defining circumstances / Vicki Bertram -- stoicisms of love / Alice Quinn -- Caffeine Destiny interview -- Smartish Pace poets Q & A -- text of it / Pilar Villar -- backward look / Jody Allen Randolph -- From '"Hazard and death' : the poetry of Eavan Boland" / Albert Gelpi -- Poetry, womanhood, and 'I amn't' / Mary O'Malley -- Eavan Boland's gift : sex, history, and myth / Shara McCallum -- From "In her own image : an assertion that myths are made by men, by the poet in transition" / Mary O'Donnell -- From "Heart mysteries there : The war horse" / Terence Brown -- From "Altered light : outside history" / R. T. Smith -- From "'A deliberate collection of cross purposes' : Eavan Boland's poetic sequences" / Michael Thurston -- From "Man, woman, soldier : Heaney's 'In memoriam Francis Ledwidge' and Boland's 'heroic'" / Helen Lojek -- Review of New collected poems / Anne Fogarty.

ISBN

• 9781857549645 (pbk.)
• 1857549643 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008396005

OCLC

• 137313684
• SCSB-11405126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library