After Every War by Eavan Boland
Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.
"[A] moving and essential new bookThese poets have a particular angle of witness that comes from powerlessness, from being vulnerable, injured, marginal, excluded. I'm struck by the personal way these poets confront history, test and interrogate language, especially their mother tongue, question the efficacy of poetry, and repeatedly defend the importance of private feeling."--Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World "I like this provocative book quite a lot: it is full of beautiful poems written under the worst historical conditions possible. It makes you think about the connection between lyric beauty (there's lots of it here) and testimony."--Dan Chiasson, Poetry
Eavan Boland is a poet and writer. Her most recent book is "Against Love Poetry".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691127798 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691127794 |
| Title | After Every War |
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| Series | Facing Pages |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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