A Woman Without a Country Poems [Paperback]

Eavan Boland is considered one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century byEavan Boland is a major Irish poet, a great seeker, and her new book is a determined mission to bring the past out of the shadows, to lift up images, record words, in a lyric battle against omissions and erasures, recorded history, the ruthlessness of time. She is a necessary singer.Eavan Bolands poems have an edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history. Her heart-stopping memoriesbitter or poignant or lovingbecome our own. This is her best bookan astonishment, a treasure.A powerful work that examines howeven without country or settled identitya legacy of love can endure.A powerful work that examines howeven without country or settled identitya legacy of love can endure.