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Against Love Poetryby Eavan BolandISBN 0393020428 (0-393-02042-8)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Domestic Violence: Poemsby Eavan BolandISBN 0393062414 (0-393-06241-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In a Time of Violenceby Eavan BolandISBN 0393312984 (0-393-31298-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a Time of Violence'Book summary:The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world.
This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." [via] 
The Lost Landby Eavan BolandISBN 0393319512 (0-393-31951-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Formsby Mark Strand, Eavan BolandISBN 0393321789 (0-393-32178-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'Book summary:The Making of a Poem is among the best how-to-read-poetry titles. Edited by two of our greatest living poets, one Irish and female, the other American and male, it is both an exploration of poetic forms and an anthology. Eavan Boland and Mark Strand each offer an introduction and then give us a series of chapters devoted to particular verse forms--the sonnet, the ballad, the sestina, the villanelle, blank verse, the stanza--as well as a long section devoted to what they somewhat vaguely call shaping forms. This refers to poetic structures established not by a specific rhyme and/or metrical pattern but by content: the elegy, for example, or the pastoral or ode. The book then concludes with a section on open forms. Each chapter is conveniently subdivided, each topic simply defined: a single page gives "The Ballad at a Glance" (or, for that matter, the pantoum) as a quick overview of the form's structure. A page or two on the history of the form follows, along with a brief comment on "the contemporary context." Then a chronological anthology of poems demonstrates the particular form. In the sonnet's case, for instance, we are treated to 23 brilliantly chosen examples--everything from Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" to Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern" to Mary Jo Salter's playful "Half a Double Sonnet." The section then concludes with another brief analysis of one example. In this spot, the villanelle features Elizabeth Bishop's classic heartbreaker, "One Art," and blank verse gives us far too brief a take on Robert Frost's tantalizing "Directive." Itself worth the price of admission, the poem begins:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
One can readily see both the advantages and the limitations of such a format: definitions are kept lean, at times approaching the sound bite, and the short sentences and brief paragraphs often seem designed for a readership more accustomed to journalism than to the complexities of Dante (see, for example, the one-page history of the sestina). All of this looks like an attempt to reach an audience of both college students and general readers. While more information might help (brief comments on why certain poems in the anthology are defined as odes, pastorals, or elegies, for example), the bottom line is that The Making of a Poem does an excellent job of taking the inexperienced reader inside the mystery of poetic form. In these terms the volume succeeds, giving us a way into the history of poetry, along with an excellent anthology as a starting point for a deeper exploration of the glories of the genre. --Doug Thorpe [via]
Back in a time made simply by the loss
of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more than a house
Upon a farm that is no more than a farm
And in a town that is no more than a town.
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The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthologyby Edward Hirsch, Eavan BolandISBN 0393058719 (0-393-05871-9)
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New Collected Poemsby Eavan BolandISBN 0393065790 (0-393-06579-0)
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Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Timeby Eavan BolandISBN 0393314375 (0-393-31437-5)
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An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987by Eavan BolandISBN 0393316017 (0-393-31601-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Outside Historyby Eavan BolandISBN 0393308227 (0-393-30822-7)
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Penguin Modern Poetsby Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan BolandISBN 0140587403 (0-14-058740-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Modern Poets'Book summary:This is the second in a series which aims to show the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. It offers representative poems of three poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver and Eavan Boland, who chose the poems themselves. [via]
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