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Spring 2007 • Vol. XXIX No. 2 • Poetry |

Letters to the Dead

By Eavan Boland

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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.

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To Memory

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