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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. A New York Times Notable Book and a Newsday Favorite Book of 2001.

This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."

[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention." -David Walker, Field

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 Eavan Boland's five early volumes of poetry: New Territory, The War Horse, In Her Own Image, Night Feed, and The Journey. The poems from Boland's first book, New Territory, show her to be, at twenty-two, a master of formal verse reflecting Irish history and myth. This collection charts the way...

Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another, how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry. Tracing "the exuberant history of forms, " they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich sele...

A poet at the peak of her power . . . one of Ireland's greatest and among the best writing in English anywhere." Booklist

The internationally acclaimed Irish poet, Eavan Boland, powerfully and movingly continues to merge private and mythic history with "The Lost Land.