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The Historians (Paperback)
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The Historians (Paperback)
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Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Times Literary Supplement
Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. A Sunday
Independent Book of the Year 2020. An Irish Times Book of the Year
2020. A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most
masterful poets of the twentieth century. Throughout her nearly
sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for
her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an
ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice
in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her 'edgy
precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of
history' ( J.D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is
the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in
which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women's lives
can powerfully revise our sense of the past. Two women burning
letters in a back garden. A poet who died too young. A mother's
parable to her daughter. Boland listens to women who have long had
no agency in the way their stories were told; in the title poem,
she writes: 'Say the word history: I see / your mother, mine. / ...
Their hands are full of words.' Addressing Irish suffragettes in
the final poem, Boland promises: 'We will not leave you behind', a
promise that animates each poem in this radiant collection. These
extraordinary, intimate narratives cling to the future through
memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we
call history.
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