EAVAN BOLAND

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century.Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history ( J.D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of womens lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past.Two women burning letters in a back garden. A poet who died too young. A mothers parable to her daughter. Boland listens to women who have long had no agency in the way their stories were told; in the title poem, she writes: Say the word history: I see / your mother, mine. / ... Their hands are full of words. Addressing Irish suffragettes in the final poem, Boland promises: We will not leave you behind, a promise that animates each poem in this radiant collection. These extraordinary, intimate narratives cling to the future through memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history.

At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work poems and prose. Together they transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable influence throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major essayist, whose potent non-fiction work challenged and changed Irish culture and society. This collection of her most important essays combines autobiographical and critical reflections on the events and influences that shaped her life and work. It includes work never before collected, as well as draft chapters of the memoir Daughter that she was working on when she died.This wise, generous book, published on what would have been Eavan Bolands 80th birthday, tells the intertwined stories of her life and her writing, her work as a writer who was also a mother and a daughter, her sense of Ireland and exile, and her evolving insights into how the poet can earn, widen and share her freedoms. As time went on, Jody Allen Randolph writes, Bolands prose grew clearer in focus and purpose; she argued that a poets work is not just to write their poems, but also to contribute to the critique by which they will eventually be judged.

En En un tiempo de violencia, Eavan Boland se impone con unos poemas más radicales que nunca, contra la realidad social y política de su Irlanda. Habla con toda franqueza desde la perspectiva de una mujer en el tiempo que intenta congraciarse con su pasado, y tambien con su futuro, a traves de un enfrentamiento directo con los hechos del presente. Estos poemas son una forma de resistencia y, a la vez, un acto de conmemoracion.

Sobre la obra Entrar en la poesía de Eavan Boland supone entrar en el mundo literario de una escritora que podría ser considerada una outsider, alguien que tras observar la historia literaria de Irl

Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her 'edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history' ( J.D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women's lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past.