A Poet's Dublin

by Eavan Boland

Book Overview

Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet's Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and raised her children to the inner-city bombing of 1974, and include such signature poems as "The Pomegranate," "The War Horse," and "Anna Liffey." Above all,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393285367
• ISBN13: 9780393285369
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"