Object Lessons (Revised)

The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

By: Eavan Boland

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Paperback | 1 July 1996 | Edition Number 1

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In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other. Included are autobiographical pieces about a woman living in Ireland, about a grandmother, a childhood. In the second section, Boland details the part of the life in which the vocation of the poet meets the life of the woman.

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"In a prose style so lyrical, spare and elegiac it rivals poetry, she draws us into personal memory, autobiographical anecdote and family history. . . . It is not like any other book in memory: inspired, relentless, deliberately and eloquently hand-drawn." -- The Nation "Thoughtfully, Boland recounts the long, uncertain process by which she came to construct (as any poet must) a persona: how she grew out of that well-schooled girl with an unsettled past and a well-received early book, into herself, a wife and mother residing in a Dublin suburb, beginning to write poems of another kind. . . . Eavan Boland has made an honest book and written of intricate matters courteously. She has proposed to her reader a composed, level-headed, yet spirited argument." -- Los Angeles Times

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry Sociology & Anthropology Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Literary Biographies

Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls

Author's Preface
Lava Cameo	p. 3
A Fragment of Exile	p. 35
In Search of a Nation	p. 52
In Search of a Language	p. 72
Turning Away	p. 88
Outside History	p. 123
The Woman The Place The Poet	p. 154
Subject Matters	p. 175
Making the Difference	p. 202
The Woman Poet: Her Dilemma	p. 239
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Object Lessons (Revised)

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