Against Love Poetry Poems

by Boland, Eavan

• ISBN13: 9780393020427
• ISBN10: 0393020428
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1944. She has published nine volumes of poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review. She has received many honors and awards, among them a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University

Table of Contents

Marriage
In Which Hester Bateman, 18th Century English Silversmith, Takes an Irish Commission	3	(2)
Against Love Poetry	5	(1)
The Pinhole Camera	6	(3)
Quarantine	9	(1)
Embers	10	(1)
Then	11	(1)
First Year	12	(2)
Once	14	(2)
Thanked Be Fortune	16	(2)
Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary	18	(1)
A Marriage for the Millennium	19	(4)
Code
Making Money	23	(3)
Limits 1	26	(1)
Code	27	(3)
The Rooms of Exile	30	(2)
Is It Still the Same	32	(1)
Limits 2	33	(1)
Hide This Place from Angels	34	(2)
How We Were Transfigured	36	(1)
The Burdens of a History	37	(3)
Called	40	(2)
Emigrant Letters	42	(2)
A Model Ship Made by Prisoners Long Ago	44	(2)
Suburban Woman: Another Detail	46	(2)
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground	48	(2)
The Old City	50	(2)
Irish Poetry	52