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An origin like water : collected poems, 1967-1987 / Eavan Boland.
LIBRA PR6052.O35 O75 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boland, Eavan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--Poetry.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1996]
- Summary:
- Here, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. Included in this volume is the work from Eaven Boland's five early volumes of poetry: New Territory, The War Horse, In Her Own Image, Night Feed, and The Journey. With the publication of this volume, all of Boland's poetry will now be available.
- Contents:
- Athene's song
- From the painting Back from market by Chardin
- New territory
- After the Irish of Aodghan O'Rathaille
- The flight of the earls
- A cynic at Kilmainham Jail
- Belfast vs. Dublin
- Yeats in Civil War
- The poets
- Mirages
- The pilgrim
- Migration
- Three songs for a legend. A lullaby for Lir's son ; The malediction ; Elegy for a youth changed to a swan
- The king and the troubadour
- Requiem for a personal friend
- The winning of Etain
- The war horse
- The famine road
- Child of our time
- The hanging judge
- A soldier's son
- The Greek experience
- The laws of love
- Sisters
- O Fons Bandusiae
- Chorus of the shadows
- From the Irish of Pangur Ban
- The Atlantic Ocean
- Conversation with an inspector of taxes about poetry
- Ode to suburbia
- Naoise at four
- Cyclist with cut branches
- Song
- The Botanic Gardens
- Prisoners
- Ready for flight
- Anon
- Suburban woman
- Tirade for the Mimic Muse
- In her own image
- In his own image
- Anorexic
- Mastectomy
- Solitary
- Menses
- Witching
- Exhibitionist
- Making up
- Degas's laundresses
- Woman in kitchen
- A ballad of beauty and time
- It's a woman's world
- Daphne with her thighs in bark
- The new pastoral
- The woman turns herself into a fish
- The woman changes her skin
- Pose
- Patchwork
- Lights
- Domestic interior. Night feed ; Monotony ; Hymn ; Partings ; Energies ; The Muse mother ; Endings ; In the garden ; After a childhood away from Ireland ; Fruit on a straight-sided tray ; Domestic interior
- I remember
- Mise Eire
- Self-portrait on a summer evening
- The oral tradition
- Fever
- The unlived life
- Lace
- The bottle garden
- Suburban woman: a detail
- The briar rose
- The women
- Nocturne
- The fire in our neighborhood
- On holiday
- Growing up
- There and back
- The wild spray
- The journey
- Envoi
- Listen. This is the noise of myth
- An Irish childhood in England: 1951
- Fond memory
- Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland
- The emigrant Irish
- Tirade for the Lyric Muse
- The woman takes her revenge on the moon
- The glass king.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393038521
- 9780393038521
- OCLC:
- 32548608
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