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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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Eavan Boland:
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be aEavan Boland:
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not dimEavan Boland:
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. IEavan Boland:
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems arEavan Boland:
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time whenEavan Boland:
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attentionEavan Boland:
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid pastEavan Boland:
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnisEavan Boland:
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almostEavan Boland:
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poet