A Poet's Dublin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393285369)

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, these poems weave together the story of a self and a city--private, political, and bound by history. The poems are supported by photographs of the city at all times and in all seasons: from dawn on the river Liffey, which flows through Dublin, to twilight up in the Dublin foothills.

Author: Eavan Boland
ISBN-10: 0393285367
ISBN-13: 9780393285369
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 98