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Eavan Boland

    De poëzie van Eavan Boland duikt in de complexiteit van de Ierse identiteit, met name vanuit een vrouwelijk perspectief. Haar vroege werk verkende vaak het huiselijke leven en de vrouwelijke ervaring, terwijl haar latere werk zich bezighield met bredere sociale en historische kwesties. Boland stond bekend om haar inzichtelijke en introspectieve stijl, gekenmerkt door een nauwgezette woordkeuze en krachtige beelden. Haar gedichten verweefden vaak persoonlijke en collectieve herinneringen, en boden een unieke lens om de Ierse cultuur en geschiedenis te begrijpen.

    First Loves
    The Making of a Poem
    W. B. Yeats
    Code
    • Code consists of a group of shorter poems and one of Eavan Boland's major sequences which extends the thematic concerns first traced in The Journey 15 years ago. Time passes: the poet's own situation as woman, mother and wife changes. The sense that earlier poems have made is not invalidated; it is qualified in a new time and place. The feminist perspectives of the poet, in the marriage sequence that stands at the beginning of the book and the ode with which the book concludes, take crucial new risks with language. Boland moves beyond the broken narratives between women towards new forms of exploration and affirmation.

      Code2001
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    • First Loves

      Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      A collection of poems selected by poets as those that first inspired them includes timeless favorites and insightful essays by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners including Roethke, Pinsky, and Heaney.

      First Loves2000
    • The Making of a Poem

      • 366bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come.- Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry schovat popis

      The Making of a Poem2000