Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990

Domestic Violence: Poems

These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a

In a Time of Violence: Poems

This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." 

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore FormExplaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engag

Against Love Poetry: Poems

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 esse

A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet

"This is a book of being and becoming. It is about being a poet. It is also about the long process of becoming one," writes Eavan Boland. These inspiring essays are both critical and deeply personal, allowing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becomi