Domestic Violence Paperback by Eavan Boland

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2008-08-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393333084
• Item Weight: 113.4 grams
• Dimensions: 20.78 x 14.02 x 0.58 cm

A celebrated collection from "one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century" (Poetry Review).

These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.

About the Author

Eavan Boland (1944—2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.