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Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland has published ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being New Collected Poems (2008), Domestic Violence (2007), and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87 (1996) with W.W. Norton. She has received the Lannan Award for Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award.

Poetry

Spring 2007

To Memory

By Eavan Boland

This is for you, goddess that you are. This is a record for us both, this is a chronicle. There should be more of them, they should be lyrical and […]

Poetry

Spring 2007

Letters to the Dead

By Eavan Boland

I In the Old Kingdom scholars found potterywritten round and around with signs and marks. II Written in silt ware. On the rims of bowls.Laid at the entrance of tombs.Red […]

Poetry

Winter 1994

What Language Did

By Eavan Boland

The evening was the same as any other. I came out and stood on the step. The suburb was closed in the weather of an early spring and the shallow […]