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Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

by EBoland (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 02 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0393314375
ISBN 13: 9780393314373

Media Reviews
Thoughtfully, Boland recounts the long, uncertain process by which she came to construct (as any poet must) a persona: how she grew out of that well-schooled girl with an unsettled past and a well-received early book, into herself, a wife and mother residing in a Dublin suburb, beginning to write poems of another kind. . . . Eavan Boland has made an honest book and written of intricate matters courteously. She has proposed to her reader a composed, level-headed, yet spirited argument. -- Los Angeles Times
In a prose style so lyrical, spare and elegiac it rivals poetry, she draws us into personal memory, autobiographical anecdote and family history. . . . It is not like any other book in memory: inspired, relentless, deliberately and eloquently hand-drawn. -- The Nation
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.