A Journey With Two Maps
Becoming A Woman Poet
Published on 27. July 2012
288 pages
978-1-84777-983-0 (ISBN)
Description
A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition.
Boland's discussion is both critical and deeply personal, an account of her development as a poet that traces her experiences as a woman, wife and mother in the light of influences such as Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath. Boland considers the ways in which influences themselves may be changed as a tradition is remade. In the final part of the book, 'Letter to a Young Woman Poet', she addresses an unseen poet of the future who will redraw the maps once more, remaking the past and the present.
Boland's discussion is both critical and deeply personal, an account of her development as a poet that traces her experiences as a woman, wife and mother in the light of influences such as Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath. Boland considers the ways in which influences themselves may be changed as a tradition is remade. In the final part of the book, 'Letter to a Young Woman Poet', she addresses an unseen poet of the future who will redraw the maps once more, remaking the past and the present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-983-0 (9781847779830)
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04/2011
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Person
Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in 1967. She taught at Trinity College, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College in Maine, and at the University of Iowa. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, California. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, Boland's works include The Historians (2020), which won the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and was a 2020 Book of the Year in the TLS, Guardian, Sunday Independent and Irish Times, The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1982), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). Her poems and essays appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She was a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She divided her time between California and Dublin where she lived with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey. Eavan died in Dublin on 27th April 2020.
Content
Contents
Preface
Journeys
A Journey with Two Maps
The Rooms of Other Women Poets
Becoming an Irish Poet
Reading as Intimidation
Translating the Underworld
Domestic Violence
Maps
Adrienne Rich
Elizabeth Bishop: An Unromantic American
Charlotte Mew: An Introduction
The Other Sylvia Plath
The Case of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Denise Levertov: Letters to a Broken World
Looking Back and Finding Anne Bradstreet
Reading Gwendolyn Brooks
Being an Irish Poet: The Communal Art of Paula Meehan
A Latin Poet: A Lost Encounter
Destinations
Letter to a Young Woman Poet
Index
Preface
Journeys
A Journey with Two Maps
The Rooms of Other Women Poets
Becoming an Irish Poet
Reading as Intimidation
Translating the Underworld
Domestic Violence
Maps
Adrienne Rich
Elizabeth Bishop: An Unromantic American
Charlotte Mew: An Introduction
The Other Sylvia Plath
The Case of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Denise Levertov: Letters to a Broken World
Looking Back and Finding Anne Bradstreet
Reading Gwendolyn Brooks
Being an Irish Poet: The Communal Art of Paula Meehan
A Latin Poet: A Lost Encounter
Destinations
Letter to a Young Woman Poet
Index
