Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
New and Selected Essays
- Editore:
W W NORTON & CO
- EAN:
9781324074281
- ISBN:
1324074280
- Pagine:
- 432
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Her writing shifted the conversation on how women redefined poetry in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-both in Ireland and abroad. This generous and wise volume contains essays selected from the two volumes Boland published during her lifetime, Object Lessons (1995) and A Journey with Two Maps (2011); major later writings addressing the changing nature of poetry, the poet, and Ireland; and an unpublished draft of "Daughter"-an extended lyric essay that Boland was working on at the time of her death. With a compelling blend of memoir, analysis, and argument, Citizen Poet traces the arc of Boland's pioneering view of nationhood through the lens of womanhood. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey through the contours of life as a mother, daughter, and citizen.