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Eavan
Boland was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944. The daughter of a diplomat
and a painter, Boland spent her girlhood in London and New York,
returning to Ireland to attend secondary school in Killiney and later
university at Trinity College in Dublin. Though still a student when she
published her first collection, 23 Poems (1962), Boland’s early work is
informed by her experiences as a young wife and mother, and her growing
awareness of the troubled role of women in Irish history and culture.
Over the course of her long career, Eavan Boland has emerged as one of
the foremost female voices in Irish literature. Throughout her many
collections of poetry, in her prose memoir Object Lessons (1995), and in
her work as a noted anthologist and teacher, Boland has honed an
appreciation for the ordinary in life. The poet and critic Ruth Padel
described Boland’s “commitment to lyric grace and feminism” even as her
subjects tend to “the fabric of domestic life, myth, love, history, and
Irish rural landscape.” Keenly aware of the problematic associations and
troubled place that women hold in Irish culture and history, Boland has
always written out of an urge to make an honest account of female
experience. In an interview with readers on the website A Smartish Pace,
Boland herself described the “difficult situation” of her early years
as a poet: “I began to write in an Ireland where the word ‘woman’ and
the word ‘poet’ seemed to be in some sort of magnetic opposition to each
other. Ireland was a country with a compelling past, and the word
‘woman’ invoked all kinds of images of communality which were thought to
be contrary to the life of anarchic individualism invoked by the word
‘poet’…I wanted to put the life I lived into the poem I wrote. And the
life I lived was a woman’s life. And I couldn’t accept the possibility
that the life of the woman would not, or could not, be named in the
poetry of my own nation.”
Boland’s poetry is known for subverting
traditional constructions of womanhood, as well as offering fresh
perspectives on Irish history and mythology. Her fifth book, In Her Own
Image (1980), brought Boland international recognition and acclaim.
Exploring topics such as domestic violence, anorexia, infanticide and
cancer, the book also announced Boland’s on-going concern with
inaccurate and muffled portrayals of women in Irish literature and
society. Her next books, including Night Feed (1982) and her first
volume of selected poems Outside History (1990), continue to explore
questions of female identity. Though Boland has been described as a
feminist, her approach is not an overtly political one. Perhaps this is
because she is not content, as a poet, to uphold one view of things to
the exclusion of all others: hers is a voice, in the words of Melanie
Rehak in the New York Times Book Review, “that is by now famous for its
unwavering feminism as well as its devotion to both the joys of
domesticity and her native Ireland.” In a Time of Violence (1994),
winner of a Lannan award and shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot
prize, contains poems that gesture towards private and political
realities at once. In poems such as “That the Science of Cartography is
Limited” and “Anna Liffey,” Boland constructs a world that is influenced
by history, the present-day and mythology and yet remains intensely
personal. It is a recipe that Boland has perfected in her work since.
Against
Love Poetry (2001), published as Code in the UK, displays the scope of
Boland’s knowledge and her awareness of tradition. “So much of European
love poetry,” she told Alice Quinn of the New Yorker online, “is court
poetry, coming out of the glamorous traditions of the court…There’s
little about the ordinariness of love.” Seeking a poetry that would
express the beauty of the plain things that make up most people’s
existences, she found that she would have to create it for herself. It
is “dailiness,” as Boland called it, that reviewers often find, and
praise, in Boland’s poetry. By focusing on “dailiness,” Boland is also
attempting to delineate the contours of a new vision of history.
Reviewing Code for the Times Literary Supplement, Clare Wills noted that
“Boland is a master at reading history in the configurations of
landscape, at seeing space as the registration of time. If only we know
how to look, there are means of deciphering the hidden, fragmentary
messages from the past, of recovering lives from history’s enigmatic
scramblings.” Domestic Violence (2007) weaves different and competing
kinds of history—the national, the personal, the domestic—together in
poems that also meditate on the legacy of Irish poetry itself. Reviewing
the collection for Poetry Review, Jay Parini noted: “The literal site
of these poems is often Ireland itself, with its heroic gestures, high
rhetoric, and (sometimes pretentious) symbol-making held in abeyance,
even fended off. Boland brilliantly attacks, and nullifies, this
tradition.” Parini added that “Boland is, in her quiet way, as
melodramatic as any of her forbears. This is always what I have liked
about her, the clash of intention and manifestation.”
Boland’s
second volume of collected work, New Collected Poems, was published in
2008 to glowing reviews. Salvaging numerous poems from her first books,
as well as a previously-unpublished verse play, the book demonstrates
Boland’s restless and incessant attempt to escape from, or at the very
least complicate, the Irish lyric tradition she inherited. Anne Fogarty,
in the Irish Book Review declared New Collected Poems “acts as a timely
reminder of the significance and innovatory force of Boland’s
achievement as a poet and of the degree to which so many of her
texts…have lastingly altered the contours of Irish writing. Modern Irish
poetry would be unthinkable without her presence. New Collected Poems
valuably updates the record of Eavan Boland’s artistic output. More
vitally, it underscores the vibrancy of her ongoing project as a poet
who is doubtless one of the foremost writers in contemporary Ireland.”
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