Outside History by Eavan Boland
An essential volume by one of our most esteemed poets.
"[Boland] pursues an important, feminist revision of the history-making so often praised or inherited by MacNeice and HeaneyNot so much outside of history as counter to it, or in the process of amending it through addition, Boland has developed in her poetry what Harold Bloom might call an agonistic relationship with the paternal, natural, and often silencing history of traditional Irish poetry. . . . An attentive powerful, encouraging poet." -- David Baker - Kenyon Review
"Eavan Boland is a marvelous poet, and Outside History is the best possible introduction to her work. Love and anxiety, memories and mysteries—she's woven them all into a rich verse fabric, thrown like a flowered shawl over her shoulders as she stands out under the chilling night sky, no other soul around but (for that haunting moment) the reader's own." -- J. D. McClatchy
"Eavan Boland is a marvelous poet, and Outside History is the best possible introduction to her work. Love and anxiety, memories and mysteries—she's woven them all into a rich verse fabric, thrown like a flowered shawl over her shoulders as she stands out under the chilling night sky, no other soul around but (for that haunting moment) the reader's own." -- J. D. McClatchy
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393308228 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393308227 |
| Title | Outside History |
| Author | Eavan Boland |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1992-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 154 |
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