Book description
Eavan Boland's new collection turns to the domestic interiors in
which the dramas of women's lives are played out: seductions and
quarrels, anger and grief, the care of children. In her attentiveness
to the humdrum realities of suburban life, Boland makes them luminous
with the power of live myths. Looking back over her own life, back
through the lives of the women who preceded her, Boland arrives at the
deep structures of memory where, as she writes, legends are made new
'not by saying them, but by unsettling / one layer of meaning from
another'. This is a collection from a poet at the height of her
powers, writing with authority and grace.
