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| Eavan Boland |
The soul of the Irish poet is given to
deep thought and lyrical language. These
thoughts have been expressed by many poets whom we know so well and love so
much…to name just a few…
Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, George
Bernard Shaw, the great W.B. Yeats, Sean O' Casey, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett,
Brendan Behan and Seamus Heaney.
However, we seldom can come up with the name of any woman Irish
poet and there have been quite enough.
Google the list and be amazed.
I would like to mention just one in this
blog…and a contemporary poet at that…Eavan Boland. She was born in 1944 and has published over
twenty volumes of poetry to the present day.
She has won numerous awards and taught at
various universities in the United States and Ireland. She also has written a prose memoir
"Object Lessons" (1995).
Eavan "takes on the matter of
Ireland and the matter of womanhood " in her poetry…neither a small task
in my opinion. And she does it "in a radically different tone and texture
from the work of her Irish contemporaries." I could go on…but see for yourself. She is a treasure. She writes in a woman's voice. She writes in an Irish voice. She writes in a
contemporary voice. Hers is a voice worth reading.
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| Photo of Oscar Wilde Statue in Dublin Kathleen Tyler Conklin |
Claire, a simply lovely blog post. I'm reading Object Lessons on Amazon and getting a feel for Eavan...Love, Cynthia
ReplyDeleteThanks Cynthia, please post your review here when you finish. I plan to read it soon. I am now reading "The Death Of Santini" by Pat Conroy...the first thirty pages have blown me away.
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