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In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the
narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in
favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that
bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the
corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more
than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and
unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer s glance. The
resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work
that gives new voice to Homer s level-voiced version of the world.
Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence
becomes a meditation on the loss of human life."
How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and
unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six
decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever
published, Levertov’s Collected Poems presents her marvelous,
groundbreaking work in full. Born in England, Denise Levertov
emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by
Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as “the most subtly
skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most
modest, the most moving.” A staunch anti-war activist and
environmentalist, and the winner of the Robert Frost Medal, the
Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lannan Prize, Denise Levertov
inspired generations of writers. New Directions is proud to publish
this landmark collected poems of one of the twentieth century’s
greatest poets.
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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Ten Poems about Tea (Staple bound)
Sophie Dahl; Illustrated by Jill Perry; Selected by Lorraine Mariner; Contributions by Thomas Hardy, Jo Shapcott, …
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Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward
primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries
of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an
understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among
others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry. Tracing "the
exuberant history of forms," they devote one chapter to each form,
offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection of
examplars that amply demonstrate the power and possibility of that
form.
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Building the Barricade
Anna Świrszczyńska; Translated by Piotr Florczyk; Introduction by Eavan Boland
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Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its
place in English among the twentieth century's master works of
war-witness."--Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of
witness, and a lyric account of the sixty-three day Warsaw
uprising.Caught between German occupation and the advancing
Soviets, the Polish Resistance Home Army barricaded central Warsaw
in hopes of liberating the city and gaining Polish sovereignty.
Building the Barricade is Anna Świrszczyńska's first-person
account of the atrocities that destroyed over 60% of the Polish
capital and left over 100,000 civilians and 16,000 Polish
resistance fighters dead.Świrszczyńska had joined the resistance
as a military nurse and later wrote: "Day and night German bombers
raged over the capital, burying the living beneath the rubble."
An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967 1987 confirmed Eavan Boland s
place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems
now brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding
material from her subsequent volumes and filling out key poems from
the early years. Following the chronology of publication, the
reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now
incremental, now momentous. Boland s work traces a measured process
of emancipation from conventions and stereotypes, writing now in a
space she has cleared not by violent rejection, but by dialogue,
critical engagement, and patient experimentation with form, theme,
and language."
Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan
Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays
aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four
major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity
and its contexts. MICHAEL LONGLEY writes with remarkable candour of
his years - 1970 to 1991 - as arts administrator in Northern
Ireland. Transforming anecdote into parable, this noted poet
measures the cost of 'trying to remain true to yourself facing the
"dark tower"' while being part of an essential but often
soul-destroying bureaucracy. EAVAN BOLAND, merging the personal and
the theoretical, contends that the place of women as writers in
Irish society have been shaped by a ' fusion of the national and
the feminine'. FRANK MCGUINESS, the internationally acclaimed
playwright, offers a radically innovative reading of Oscar Wilde's
De Profundis, while calling into being the material contexts of
creativity - in this instance, a prison cell. The Indian novelist
ANITA DESAI looks at her country's colonial heritage and a shared
background that gave rise to the work of Nobel Laureate
Rabindranath Tagore and the film-maker Satyajit Ray. Her
fascinating lecture shows how a vibrant indigenous culture, coming
into fruitful contact with the West at the end of the nineteenth
century, blossomed into artistic creation - yielding parallels with
Ireland.
The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate
intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses
inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring
questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from generation
to generation), the poems look closely at the ways in which we
construct one another, and the ways in which - even without
country, or settled identity - a legacy of connection and
consolation can endure.
New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career
to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007),
concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work
through more than a dozen collections, Boland continues to find new
dimensions in language, in history and in the body subject to
passion and to time. Her critical writing, her poetry and her
example have made an emancipating difference to writing in Ireland.
As she remarked in an interview in 2000, 'women are now writing the
Irish poem across a very big register of new tones, new subjects,
new approaches...I think I was one of the poets who became
convinced of the need for change.'
In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most
important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has,
in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak
and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some
40 pages from the work of the poets. Each contributes a short
personal statement and a bibliography.
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A Dozen Lips (Paperback)
Eavan Boland, Eaven Boland, Clodagh Corcoran, Carol Coulter; As told to Margaret Ward, …
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A collection of provocative writings on contemporary issues and
controversies, by Irish women writers, thinkers and activists
including: Eavan Boland, Clodagh Corcoran, Carol Coulter, Gretchen
Fitzgerald, Maureen Gaffney, Trudy Hayes, Edna Longley, Gerardine
Meaney, Ruth Riddick, Helena Sheehan, Ethna Viney, and Margaret
Ward. This is a collection of the best of the LIP pamphlet series
published during the past ten years.
Ten years ago Carcanet published Eavan Boland's first Collected
Poems, a book which confirmed her place at the forefront of modern
Irish poetry. The New Collected Poems brings the record of her
achievement up to date, adding The Lost Land (1998) and Code
(2001). It also fills out the early record, reproducing two key
poems from 23 Poems (1962), New Territory (1967), The War Horse
(1975) and her later books; it includes passages from her
unpublished 1971 play Femininity and Freedom. Following the
chronology of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating
sense of development, now incremental, now momentous. Her writing
and example are vitally enabling for young writers and readers; she
traces a measured process of emancipation from conventions and
stereotypes, writing now in a space she has cleared not by violent
rejection, but by dialogue, critical engagement and patient
experimentation with form, theme and language
These powerful poems are written against the perfections and
idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in
these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging
human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their
essential witness, and not their destroyer. A "New York Times"
Notable Book and a "Newsday" Favorite Book of 2001.
In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the
ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an
ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of
merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as
her narrators wait more or less patiently in their 'difficult
knowledge' for the healing of their country's wounds" (San
Francisco Examiner and Chronicle).
WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and
maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with
their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of
Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a
nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving
examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life.
One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, To
the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf's most popular
novel. The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated
by Jeanette Winterson, and the texts used are based on the original
Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon,
Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a
gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for
an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means
to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition.
Boland's discussion is both critical and deeply personal, an
account of her development as a poet that traces her experiences as
a woman, wife and mother in the light of influences such as
Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and Sylvia Plath.
Boland considers the ways in which influences themselves may be
changed as a tradition is remade. In the final part of the book,
'Letter to a Young Woman Poet', she addresses an unseen poet of the
future who will redraw the maps once more, remaking the past and
the present.
Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish
poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best
known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city,
Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, place and memory,
the book creates a unique portrait of the city: 'fragments', Boland
says, 'can point at something accurately'. A Poet's Dublin also
includes an introduction by Jody Allen Randolph and a conversation
between Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan in which the two poets
reflect on their shared city and the central role it has played in
their lives and in their work.
This illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various
moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch
and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes,
paying particular attention to how individual poets from
Shakespeare to Strand have claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened
them, shortened them, elaborated on them, and, in turn, been
defined by them. Three sections "The Sonnet in the Mirror," "The
Sonnet Goes to Different Lengths," and "The Sonnet extraordinary
durability and its reinventions. The collection opens with personal
introductions by the editors, and, in the appendix, they provide
"Ten Questions for a Sonnet Workshop" to jump-start a conversation
between students and teachers. With more than three hundred poems,
The Making of a Sonnet guides readers through a vigorous adventures
in craft and practice, right up to its extraordinary resurgence in
contemporary poetry."
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The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world. This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." "Boland combines impeccable craft, resilient metaphors and, above all, moral authority in order to witness human difficulties. Critics already align her ideas with those of Adrienne Rich and Margaret Atwood, and I'd add Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer and William Gass." —Jan Garden Castro, The Nation "One of Ireland's finest contemporary writers, as passionate and ambitious as Kenneally, as classical and meticulous as Heaney. . . . This is profound moving work from a poet at the height of her powers." —Booklist
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