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A Woman Without a Country: Poems
A Woman Without a Country: Poems | Eavan Boland
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A powerful work that examines howeven without country or settled identitya legacy of love can endure. Eavan Boland is considered one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a Country, looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an individual. Themes of mother, daughter, and generation echo throughout these extraordinary poems, as they examine howeven without country or settled identitya legacy of love can endure. From Talking to my Daughter Late at Night We have a tray, a pot of tea, a scone. This is the hour When one thing pours itself into another: The gable of our house stored in shadow. A spring planet bending ice Into an absolute of light. Your childhood ended years ago. There is No path back to it.
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Severnmeadows
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A great Irish poet (d. 27th April 2020)

Sea Change

What did he leave me, my grandfather,
Who lost his life in a spring tempest
At the Chaussée des Pierres Noires
At the edge of Biscay?

With his roof of half-seen stars
His salty walls rising higher and higher
To the last inch of the horizon
He built nothing I could live in.
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The opposite of passion
is not virtue
but routine.

- "Daphne with her Thighs in Bark" by Eavan Boland

[Quote from poetry anthology, "Treelines", not yet on Litsy]

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Kristy_K
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I can't remember where I heard of Boland, but I'm so glad I picked up her poetry. An amazing collection by an Irish author. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#poetry #irish

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