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Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990

Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990

by EavanBoland (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention. -David Walker, Field

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 151
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 28 Feb 1992
ISBN 10: 0393308227
ISBN 13: 9780393308228

Media Reviews
[Boland] pursues an important, feminist revision of the history-making so often praised or inherited by MacNeice and Heaney. Not 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
Author Bio
Eavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lives in Stanford, California, and Dublin, Ireland.