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100	1		_aBoland, Eavan
245	1	2	_aA journey with two maps _b: becoming a woman poet _c/ Eavan Boland
246	3	0	_aBecoming a woman poet
260			_aManchester _b: Carcanet _c, 2011.
300			_axiv, 274 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aAcclaimed Irish poet Boland (Domestic Violence) uses "autobiography and analysis" to trace the making of poets, poems, readers, and their communities. One map reflects her belief that how we read or write a poem is an ever-changing process not rooted in a single point of time but a relationship to the "poetic past." The second charts the poet's need to change that past. Sketches of women poets from Puritan Anne Bradstreet to Denise Levertov, the sole woman of the 1960s Black Mountain School, lead to a concluding "Letter to a Young Woman Poet," describing Boland's struggle to create poems from her life as a mother. Asserting "the strengths that exist in the communal life of women," Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. If some of her language is directed to those writing or reading poetry, her vivid imagery ("if this were a summer darkness in Ireland the morning would already be stored in the midnight") will beguile many.
600	1	0	_aBoland, Eavan
650		0	_aPoetry _x--Authorship
650			_aWoman poets, Irish
942			_cMO
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