
A Journey with Two Maps
Becoming a Woman Poet
Eavan Boland(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 21. October 2011
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-0-393-05214-5 (ISBN)
Description
"This is a book of being and becoming. It is about being a poet. It is also about the long process of becoming one," writes Eavan Boland. These inspiring essays are both critical and deeply personal, allowing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becoming a woman poet to be viewed from different perspectives. Boland traces her own experiences as a woman, wife, and mother and their effects on her poetry. In the opening essay, she explores the story of her mother, a painter, and her influence on Boland's own concepts of art and womanhood. She examines the work of women poets such as Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sylvia Plath, whose poetry provided light and guidance for her own work. And finally, in "Letter to a Young Woman Poet," she addresses an unseen young poet of the future, and looks to a world where this future artist can change the poetic past as well as the present.
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"Starred Review. Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. If some of her language is directed to those writing or reading poetry, her vivid imagery ('if this were a summer darkness in Ireland the morning would already be stored in the midnight') will beguile many." -- Publishers WeeklyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
439 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-05214-5 (9780393052145)
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05/2012
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Person
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.